Motivational Quotes

Work

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

- Theodore Roosevelt

Best Quotes about Work

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

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Butler, Samuel

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

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

10.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

11.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

12.

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

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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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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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

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

22.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

23.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

26.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

32.

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

Gillis, Dobie

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

34.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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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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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

39.

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

40.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

James M. Barrie

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

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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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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil