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

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Oakley, Ann

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Keller, Helen

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Kemp, Jack

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Thatcher, Margaret

31.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Peter Drucker

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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...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

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We work to become, not to acquire.