Motivational Quotes

Work

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

- Burns, Mamie Sypert

Best Quotes about Work

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

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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.

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

Voltaire

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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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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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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

David McCullough

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

31.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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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 contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.