Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

David Shore

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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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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Oakley, Ann

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Hal Lancaster

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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

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Riley, Pat

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work is a four letter word!

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

Jong, Erica

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.