Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Gretzky, Wayne

Best Quotes about Work

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

...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

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Herbert, George

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

David Shore

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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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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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Don Marquis

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Keller, Helen

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Marquis, Don

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Peter Drucker

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Thomas Carlyle

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

Lombardi, Vince