Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Carty, Margaret

Best Quotes about Work

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

Bob Ross

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

David Shore

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Romer, Frank

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

Keller, Helen

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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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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

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Prince, Ray

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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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Work is a four letter word!

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

Peter Drucker

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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.

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

Barack Obama

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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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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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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