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

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

Proverb, American

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

Peter Drucker

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Jones, Beverly

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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

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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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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

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Don Marquis

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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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'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Proverb, French

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Twain, Mark

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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.

43.

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

Devine, Dan

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.