Motivational Quotes

Work

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Work

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Fox, Jim

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

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Carty, Margaret

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

David Shore

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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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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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 for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Hill, Napoleon

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