Motivational Quotes

Work

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Work

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hill, Napoleon

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Pavlova, Anna

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Diller, Phyllis

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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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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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Holtz, Lou

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Rutte, Martin

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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

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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Allen, James

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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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.

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

Thomas A. Edison