Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Salk, Dr. Jonas

Best Quotes about Work

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

Robert Benchley

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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

Ashford, Evelyn

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Book, William Frederick

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

11.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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

Oakley, Ann

13.

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

14.

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

Jones, Beverly

15.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

18.

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

Parkinson's Law

19.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

21.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

25.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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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

28.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

29.

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

Ruskin, John

30.

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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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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

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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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

40.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

47.

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

Bob Ross

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.