Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Kemp, Jack

Best Quotes about Work

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Butterworth, Eric

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

Austen, Jane

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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.

John Ruskin

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

David Shore

21.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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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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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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

Robert Benchley

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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

34.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

38.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

39.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

46.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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