Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Kipling, Rudyard

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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

David McCullough

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Oakley, Ann

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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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

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Herbert, George

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Mitchell, Warren

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David