Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Work

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Confucius

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ruskin, John

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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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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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Oakley, Ann

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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