Motivational Quotes

Work

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Best Quotes about Work

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Ogden Nash

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

Kemp, Jack

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

10.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

11.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

12.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

15.

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

Gillis, Dobie

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

17.

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

Bob Ross

18.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

20.

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

21.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

26.

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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

28.

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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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.

30.

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.

31.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

32.

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

Mitchell, Warren

33.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

Herbert, George

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Oakley, Ann

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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

38.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

39.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

40.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

41.

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.

42.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

46.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

48.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

Butterworth, Eric

50.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore