Motivational Quotes

Work

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

- Larry Page

Best Quotes about Work

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Lennon, John

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Thomas Carlyle

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

14.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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.

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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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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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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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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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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...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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

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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

25.

Work is a four letter word!

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

Howard Newton

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, American

32.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

37.

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

Barack Obama

38.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

42.

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

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Ford, Henry

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen