Motivational Quotes

Work

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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

Bob Ross

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

Angelou, Maya

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.

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

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

Riley, Pat

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

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

12.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Pavlova, Anna

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

LeMond, Greg

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Devine, Dan

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Bible

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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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Work is a four letter word!

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

Robert Morley

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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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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.