Motivational Quotes

Work

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

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

Lowell, James Russell

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Elbert Hubbard

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Twain, Mark

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Peter Drucker

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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

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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.

John Ruskin

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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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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

38.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

39.

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

40.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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 don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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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

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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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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.