Motivational Quotes

Work

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Work

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

David Shore

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, French

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

Confucius

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Frost, Robert

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Hal Lancaster

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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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

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

Richard Bach

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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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...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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Voltaire

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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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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.