Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Richard Bach

Best Quotes about Work

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

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.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

10.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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

David McCullough

12.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

20.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Jong, Erica

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

Riley, Pat

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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

25.

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

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hill, Napoleon

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

48.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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