Motivational Quotes

Work

I believe that good things come to those who work.

- Chamberlain, Wilt

Best Quotes about Work

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Keller, Helen

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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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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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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

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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 greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Gorky, Maxim

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

Riley, Pat

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.