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

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.

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

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Michelangelo

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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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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

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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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

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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.

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

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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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Peter Drucker

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Mcevoy, J. P.