Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Sam Ewing

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Barack Obama

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

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

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Robert Morley

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

Ford, Henry

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

David McCullough

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

Herbert, George

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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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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Maurois, Andre

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Rutte, Martin

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Baldwin, James

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Wilde, Oscar

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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.