Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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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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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.

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Blow, Susan

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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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

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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 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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

David McCullough

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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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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Riley, Pat

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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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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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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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 only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Austen, Jane

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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