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

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

10.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

12.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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

Escher, M. C.

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Riley, Pat

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

Howard Newton

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

25.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Rohn, Jim

27.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

28.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

29.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

31.

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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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

35.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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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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

40.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

David Shore

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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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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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 man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas