Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

- Osler, Sir William

Best Quotes about Work

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

11.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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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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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

17.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Riley, Pat

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

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Voltaire

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Comaneci, Nadia

31.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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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 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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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert