Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Work

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

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

Voltaire

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

10.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

11.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

12.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

16.

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.

17.

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

Anatole France

18.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

19.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

23.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

24.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

26.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

27.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Ford, Henry

30.

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

Austen, Jane

31.

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

32.

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

33.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

38.

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

Baldwin, James

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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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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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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

42.

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

Fox, Jim

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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

45.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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

48.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

49.

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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle