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 moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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.

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

Proverb, American

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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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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

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Maurois, Andre

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Michelangelo

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Elbert Hubbard

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Robert Morley

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Ford, Henry

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

Herbert, George

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

Halas, George

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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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