Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Work

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

Proverb, American

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

David McCullough

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

11.

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.

12.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

14.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Pavlova, Anna

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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

Fox, Jim

21.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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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.

25.

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

Halas, George

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

27.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

28.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Work is a four letter word!

30.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Mitchell, Warren

32.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

33.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

36.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

37.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Keller, Helen

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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.

44.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

49.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb