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 literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

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

Ford, Henry

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

16.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

17.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

18.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

19.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

21.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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

27.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

29.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

32.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

34.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

35.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Barack Obama

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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

42.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

43.

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

44.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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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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 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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy