Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Work

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Herold, Don

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Ford, Henry

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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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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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

24.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

25.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

28.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

30.

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

Parkinson's Law

31.

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

32.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

35.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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.

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

Keller, Helen

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Bob Ross

43.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

44.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

45.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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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

48.

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas