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

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Kemp, Jack

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

Work is a four letter word!

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

Pavlova, Anna

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Butler, Samuel

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Marquis, Don

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Elbert Hubbard

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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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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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

LeMond, Greg

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Twain, Mark

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary