Motivational Quotes

Work

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

- Mcintosh, M. C.

Best Quotes about Work

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Angelou, Maya

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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 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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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

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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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

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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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

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kemp, Jack

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Bible

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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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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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Lincoln, Abraham