Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Romer, Frank

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Confucius

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

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Ruskin, John

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

Richard Bach

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

Jong, Erica

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

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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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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.

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Voltaire

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Herold, Don

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor