Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Dorothy L. Sayers

Best Quotes about Work

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

Don Marquis

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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.

10.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

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

12.

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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Marquis, Don

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Herbert, George

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Rutte, Martin

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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

41.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.