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

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

10.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

11.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

13.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

14.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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 one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Blow, Susan

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Ford, Henry

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

Romer, Frank

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

44.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

46.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

49.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John