Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Work

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

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

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

LeMond, Greg

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

Ford, Henry

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Twain, Mark

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Voltaire

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Richard Bach

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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.