Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Riley, Pat

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

Keller, Helen

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fox, Jim

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Proverb, French

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

20.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

21.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

29.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

31.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

33.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Keller, Helen

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

40.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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.

Robert Benchley

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

Riley, Pat

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Benchley, Robert