Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Sam Ewing

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

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Prince, Ray

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Twain, Mark

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

Blow, Susan

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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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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Oprah Winfrey

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.