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 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

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Keller, Helen

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Rivers, Joan

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Keller, Helen

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Twain, Mark

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Michelangelo

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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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Peter Drucker

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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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 is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.