Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Work

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Weil, Simone

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Work is a four letter word!

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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Valery, Paul

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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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

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

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

Paterno, Joe

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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 your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Riley, Pat

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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.

John Ruskin

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

David Shore

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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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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew