Motivational Quotes

Work

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

- Farrar, Frederick

Best Quotes about Work

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Voltaire

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Oprah Winfrey

10.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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 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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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

24.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Devine, Dan

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

Escher, M. C.

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

33.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

34.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

35.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Proverb, French

37.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

39.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

40.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

41.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

42.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

43.

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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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

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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

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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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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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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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