Motivational Quotes

Work

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Baldwin, James

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Johnson, James Weldon

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Riley, Pat

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Peter Drucker

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Michelangelo

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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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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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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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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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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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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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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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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.