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

Baldwin, James

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Rohn, Jim

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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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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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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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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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

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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 is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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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

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

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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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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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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.