Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

Voltaire

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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

Thomas A. Edison

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Robert Benchley

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Howard Newton

11.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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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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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

25.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

26.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Proverb, French

29.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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

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

38.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar