Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Smith, Dr. Walter

Best Quotes about Work

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Frost, Robert

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

10.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

11.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

12.

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

13.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

14.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

15.

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

Blow, Susan

16.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

17.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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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.

19.

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

20.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

21.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

28.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

29.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

30.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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

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

Ford, Henry

34.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

35.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

36.

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

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Sand, George

40.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

41.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

45.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.