Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thomas Carlyle

Best Quotes about Work

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Hill, Napoleon

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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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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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Halas, George

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.