Motivational Quotes

Work

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

- Sam Ewing

Best Quotes about Work

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

10.

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

Allen, James

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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

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

Bob Ross

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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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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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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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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

31.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

35.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

36.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

41.

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

Voltaire

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann