Motivational Quotes

Work

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Work

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

Parkinson's Law

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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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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Voltaire

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

Rutte, Martin

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Oakley, Ann

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Picasso, Pablo

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

David McCullough

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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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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

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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