Motivational Quotes

Work

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Work

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

Gorky, Maxim

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

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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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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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

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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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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Hill, Napoleon