Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Oakley, Ann

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

10.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

11.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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.

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

Barack Obama

15.

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

David McCullough

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

18.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

19.

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

Keller, Helen

20.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

21.

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.

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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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.

25.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

29.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

30.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

32.

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

Riley, Pat

33.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

34.

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

James M. Barrie

35.

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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

38.

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 suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Keller, Helen

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

42.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

45.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

46.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

47.

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

Halas, George

48.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

49.

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

Paterno, Joe