Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

- Sand, George

Best Quotes about Work

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

Proverb

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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

11.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

21.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

23.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

27.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Allen, James

29.

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

Foster, Jodie

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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 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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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

40.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

41.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.