Motivational Quotes

Work

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Work

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Devine, Dan

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

10.

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

11.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

12.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

18.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

19.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

20.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

21.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

22.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

23.

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

24.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

25.

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

26.

Work is a four letter word!

27.

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

David McCullough

28.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

30.

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

Angelou, Maya

31.

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

32.

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

Austen, Jane

33.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

34.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

35.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

36.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

38.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

39.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

40.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

43.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

45.

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

Weil, Simone

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

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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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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen