Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Work

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Riley, Pat

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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

11.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

12.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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

15.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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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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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

18.

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.

19.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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

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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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

25.

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

Book, William Frederick

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

28.

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

29.

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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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

32.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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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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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

39.

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

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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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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder