Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Work

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Johnson, James Weldon

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Marquis, Don

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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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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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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 is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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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

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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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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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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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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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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

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

Twain, Mark

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Baldwin, James

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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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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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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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...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

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

Herbert, George

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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