Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Benchley, Robert

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

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

Rutte, Martin

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

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Johnny Carson

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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.

Bette Davis

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

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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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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 put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Rohn, Jim

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Oprah Winfrey

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Michelangelo

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

David Shore