Motivational Quotes

Work

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

- Pavlova, Anna

Best Quotes about Work

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

...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

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Austen, Jane

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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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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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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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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 suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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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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Work is a four letter word!

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

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

David McCullough

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

Frost, Robert

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