Motivational Quotes

Work

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

- Kemp, Jack

Best Quotes about Work

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

10.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

13.

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

Escher, M. C.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Rutte, Martin

20.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

21.

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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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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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

27.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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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

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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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 welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Carty, Margaret

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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Lennon, John

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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