Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Howard Newton

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Robert Benchley

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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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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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

23.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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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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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

33.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Work is a four letter word!

40.

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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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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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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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Devine, Dan

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.