Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Rutte, Martin

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bob Ross

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.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Michelangelo

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Holtz, Lou

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Butler, Samuel

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Riley, Pat

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

David McCullough

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Richard Bach

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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.