Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Kemp, Jack

Best Quotes about Work

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Herold, Don

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Hubbard, Elbert

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

11.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

12.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

13.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

14.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Confucius

21.

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

Hal Lancaster

22.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Benchley, Robert

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

29.

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

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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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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 --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.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

41.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

42.

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

Jong, Erica

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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

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

45.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas