Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Slick, Grace

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

13.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

18.

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

Proverb, French

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

21.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Paterno, Joe

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Michelangelo

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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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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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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

34.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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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 is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

40.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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 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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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

Keller, Helen

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Work alone is noble.