Motivational Quotes

Work

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Work

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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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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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Riley, Pat

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

Proverb, French

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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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

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

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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 banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Hepburn, Katharine