Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Elbert Hubbard

Best Quotes about Work

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

Ashford, Evelyn

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

James M. Barrie

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Oakley, Ann

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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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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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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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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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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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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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

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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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