Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Howard Newton

Best Quotes about Work

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

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

Howard Newton

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

Book, William Frederick

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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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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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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