Motivational Quotes

Work

If food were free, why work?

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Work

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Pavlova, Anna

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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.

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

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Ruskin, John

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Gorky, Maxim

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Keller, Helen

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gillis, Dobie

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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.