Motivational Quotes

Work

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Confucius

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

David Shore

Work is a four letter word!

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

Riley, Pat

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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! 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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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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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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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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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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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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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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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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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

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

39.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

40.

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

Blow, Susan

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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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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

46.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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