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

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

Dodge, B.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Proverb, American

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

Michelangelo

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

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.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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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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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

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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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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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

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

Devine, Dan

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Angelou, Maya

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Herbert, George

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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.

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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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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.

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas