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 reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Book, William Frederick

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

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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

Proverb, American

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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

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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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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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

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

David McCullough

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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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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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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.