Motivational Quotes

Work

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

- Shakarian, David

Best Quotes about Work

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Richard Bach

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Voltaire

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Thomas Carlyle

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Foster, Jodie

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Butler, Samuel

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

29.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

38.

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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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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

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Work is a four letter word!

42.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

Frost, Robert