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

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Blow, Susan

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Kemp, Jack

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

30.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Proverb, French

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Barack Obama

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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 moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha