Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

Blow, Susan

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

Jong, Erica

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

12.

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

Sand, George

13.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

19.

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

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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

28.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

29.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

32.

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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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Confucius

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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

45.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Riley, Pat

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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.

49.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques