Motivational Quotes

Work

While a person gets they can never lose.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Hal Lancaster

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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

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

Keller, Helen

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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

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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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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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton