Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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 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

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Huxley, Aldous

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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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

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

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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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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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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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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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.

Robert Benchley

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Halas, George

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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