Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

...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

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

Ruskin, John

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Sand, George

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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

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Don Marquis

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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 team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

29.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Book, William Frederick

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

James M. Barrie

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

Lowell, James Russell

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan