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

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

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.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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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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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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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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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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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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

Riley, Pat

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

28.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Rohn, Jim

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Voltaire

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

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Comaneci, Nadia