Motivational Quotes

Work

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Best Quotes about Work

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Ruskin, John

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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 like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Peter Drucker

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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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

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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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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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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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.

Robert Benchley

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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

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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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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne