Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Work

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

Michelangelo

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Thomas A. Edison

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Slick, Grace

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

Riley, Pat

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

11.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Blow, Susan

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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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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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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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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

25.

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

Marquis, Don

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

Keller, Helen

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Book, William Frederick

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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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

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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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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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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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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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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

50.

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.