Motivational Quotes

Work

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Work

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

Barack Obama

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

Carty, Margaret

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

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

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Robert Morley

11.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Paterno, Joe

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

17.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

19.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

20.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

21.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

22.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

23.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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

27.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

28.

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

Thomas Carlyle

29.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

30.

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

31.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

32.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

33.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

34.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

37.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Ford, Henry

41.

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

42.

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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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Proverb, American

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

48.

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 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

50.

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