Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Keller, Helen

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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 work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Devine, Dan

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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Riley, Pat

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

Bob Ross

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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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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

Hal Lancaster

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

Riley, Pat

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

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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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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.