Motivational Quotes

Work

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

- Barzan, Gerald

Best Quotes about Work

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Work is a four letter word!

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul