Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Richard Bach

Best Quotes about Work

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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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

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

15.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Twain, Mark

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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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

19.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

21.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

22.

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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

28.

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

David McCullough

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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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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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 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 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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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

40.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Kemp, Jack

43.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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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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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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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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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David