Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Hepburn, Katharine

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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

Michelangelo

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Weil, Simone

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

25.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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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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

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

Pavlova, Anna

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

39.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

David Shore

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Twain, Mark

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

Voltaire

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

David McCullough

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

50.

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