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

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

Pavlova, Anna

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

Don Marquis

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.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

...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

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Thomas A. Edison

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Allen, James

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Blow, Susan

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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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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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bob Ross

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Parkinson's Law

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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

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Rohn, Jim

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar