Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Kipling, Rudyard

Best Quotes about Work

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.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

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

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

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

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Ford, Henry

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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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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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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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 am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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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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

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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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna