Motivational Quotes

Work

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Work

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

Keller, Helen

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Shakarian, David

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Work is a four letter word!

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

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

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Weil, Simone

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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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

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

Pavlova, Anna

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Escher, M. C.

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

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

Twain, Mark

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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