Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Hepburn, Katharine

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Robert Benchley

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Bible

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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.

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

Voltaire

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Riley, Pat

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

Ogden Nash

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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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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Elbert Hubbard

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Don Marquis

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Blow, Susan

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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

Proverb, French

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

Bob Ross

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen