Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

10.

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

Romer, Frank

11.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

17.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

18.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

19.

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

Fox, Jim

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

25.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Theodore Roosevelt

27.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

29.

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

30.

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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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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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Holtz, Lou

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

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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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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

David Shore

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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.