Motivational Quotes

Work

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Work

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

Keller, Helen

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

David McCullough

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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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 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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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Parkinson's Law

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

30.

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

Book, William Frederick

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

32.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

34.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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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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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

42.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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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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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 like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James