Motivational Quotes

Work

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Work

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

Lombardi, Vince

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

Wilde, Oscar

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Butler, Samuel

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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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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

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Confucius

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Riley, Pat

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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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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Twain, Mark

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.