Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Angelou, Maya

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.

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

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Michelangelo

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

12.

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

Robert Morley

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Riley, Pat

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

Maurois, Andre

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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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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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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil