Motivational Quotes

Work

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Voltaire

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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 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

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Foster, Jodie

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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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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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Twain, Mark

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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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.

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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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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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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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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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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