Motivational Quotes

Work

A man grows most tired while standing still.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Work

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

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Paterno, Joe

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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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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Proverb, American

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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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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Butler, Samuel

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

31.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Weil, Simone

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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 alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark