Motivational Quotes

Work

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Work

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

Don Marquis

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Robert Morley

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

Austen, Jane

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

Herbert, George

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Paterno, Joe

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Bob Ross

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

David McCullough

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

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

Confucius

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

Riley, Pat

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret