Motivational Quotes

Work

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Marquis, Don

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

David McCullough

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Michelangelo

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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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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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.