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

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Hubbard, Elbert

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

David Shore

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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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

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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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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Riley, Pat

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Voltaire

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Keller, Helen

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.