Motivational Quotes

Work

Want is the mother of industry.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Pavlova, Anna

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

10.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

11.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

15.

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

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

Syrus, Publilius

19.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

20.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

21.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

22.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

23.

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

Fox, Jim

24.

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

Jong, Erica

25.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

29.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

30.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

31.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

33.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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 isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

42.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

43.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

44.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

45.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon