Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Work

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

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Richard Bach

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Jong, Erica

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Proverb, American

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Oakley, Ann

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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 believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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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 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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Thomas A. Edison

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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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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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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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