Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Work

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

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

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Maurois, Andre

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

Riley, Pat

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

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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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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De