Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Proverb, French

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

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Holtz, Lou

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Riley, Pat

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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Keller, Helen

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Rivers, Joan

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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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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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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 quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

Mitchell, Warren

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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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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

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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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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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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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Devine, Dan

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

Jong, Erica

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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