Motivational Quotes

Work

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

- Elbert Hubbard

Best Quotes about Work

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

Picasso, Pablo

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

Blow, Susan

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

Marquis, Don

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

Riley, Pat

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

Fox, Jim

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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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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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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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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

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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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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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Riley, Pat

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Keller, Helen

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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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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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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

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Kemp, Jack

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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

Keller, Helen

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

Voltaire

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

James M. Barrie

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary