Motivational Quotes

Work

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

- Henry J. Kaiser

Best Quotes about Work

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Parkinson's Law

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Confucius

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

Ruskin, John

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

21.

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

Blow, Susan

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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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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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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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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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

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

Oakley, Ann

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.