Motivational Quotes

Work

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Work

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

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

Robert Benchley

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

David Shore

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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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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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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.

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

Don Marquis

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Devine, Dan

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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.