Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

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

Ford, Henry

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Henry J. Kaiser

15.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

16.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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

18.

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

19.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

21.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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

Jones, Beverly

23.

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 intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

27.

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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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

29.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

30.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

31.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

35.

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

37.

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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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

40.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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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 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

47.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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