Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Work

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Richard Bach

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Shakarian, David

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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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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Jones, Beverly

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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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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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Keller, Helen

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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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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

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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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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

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Twain, Mark

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew