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

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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

13.

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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Howard Newton

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Proverb, American

28.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

43.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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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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