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

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Gillis, Dobie

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Keller, Helen

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

17.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Maurois, Andre

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Jong, Erica

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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.

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

Halas, George

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

Bible

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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.