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

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Twain, Mark

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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 work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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.

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

Herold, Don

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Maurois, Andre

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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

Lombardi, Vince

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Foster, Jodie

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.