Motivational Quotes

Work

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

- Bob Ross

Best Quotes about Work

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Don Marquis

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Richard Bach

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

28.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Mitchell, Warren

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

Keller, Helen