Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Work

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Bob Ross

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

Twain, Mark

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Proverb, American

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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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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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

43.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps