Motivational Quotes

Work

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Work

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Herold, Don

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

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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

Bob Ross

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Ogden Nash

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

Ford, Henry

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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Barack Obama

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Sand, George

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

David Shore

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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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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Book, William Frederick

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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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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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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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.