Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Best Quotes about Work

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Riley, Pat

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

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Work is a four letter word!

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Pavlova, Anna

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Ogden Nash

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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

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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

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

Gorky, Maxim

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The