Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Thomas Carlyle

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Herbert, George

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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Lombardi, Vince

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Carty, Margaret

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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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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

Richard Bach

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

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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Mother Teresa

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

Butler, Samuel