Motivational Quotes

Work

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

- Valery, Paul

Best Quotes about Work

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

David Shore

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Voltaire

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, American

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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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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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

Prince, Ray

31.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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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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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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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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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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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.

Robert Benchley

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Sam Ewing

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey