Motivational Quotes

Work

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

- Monson, Thomas S.

Best Quotes about Work

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

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.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Riley, Pat

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

Michelangelo

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Herbert, George

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

Butterworth, Eric

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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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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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