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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Book, William Frederick

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

10.

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

11.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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

16.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Coolidge, Calvin

18.

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

19.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

21.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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 history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

25.

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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

27.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

28.

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

Holtz, Lou

29.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

30.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

31.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Marquis, Don

35.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

38.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Billings, Josh

40.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Jong, Erica

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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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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.