Motivational Quotes

Work

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Angelou, Maya

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

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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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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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Kemp, Jack

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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 an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

Jong, Erica

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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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.

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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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

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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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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.