Motivational Quotes

Work

A man grows most tired while standing still.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Work

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Jong, Erica

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

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Twain, Mark

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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.

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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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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

James M. Barrie

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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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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Gorky, Maxim

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Austen, Jane

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

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

48.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell