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

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Richard Bach

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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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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Milsap, Ronnie

18.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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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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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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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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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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

Twain, Mark

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

Voltaire

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

41.

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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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama