Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Work is a four letter word!

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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

Lennon, John

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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

Coolidge, Calvin

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

David Shore

11.

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

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Confucius

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Keller, Helen

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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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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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

30.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Gorky, Maxim

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

Butler, Samuel

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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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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.

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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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

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

Theodore Roosevelt