Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Hal Lancaster

Best Quotes about Work

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

David Shore

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

21.

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

Richard Bach

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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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.

28.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

36.

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

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

38.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

40.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Paterno, Joe

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

44.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

45.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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