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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Baldwin, James

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

12.

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

Herbert, George

13.

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

14.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

15.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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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

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

20.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Pavlova, Anna

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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

25.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

26.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

27.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

30.

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

31.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

32.

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

33.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

34.

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

Huxley, Aldous

35.

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

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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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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

Carty, Margaret

39.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

40.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

41.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

42.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

43.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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.

49.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas