Motivational Quotes

Work

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

- Blow, Susan

Best Quotes about Work

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Barzan, Gerald

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

15.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Oakley, Ann

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

33.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd