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

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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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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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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

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Butler, Samuel

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

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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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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 work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Rutte, Martin

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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

Keller, Helen

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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