Motivational Quotes

Work

While a person gets they can never lose.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Work

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

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Coolidge, Calvin

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

Robert Morley

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

23.

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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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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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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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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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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

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

Ogden Nash

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

43.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Ford, Henry

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

James M. Barrie

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine