Motivational Quotes

Work

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Fox, Jim

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Herbert, George

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

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

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

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

Escher, M. C.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

10.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

11.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

12.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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.

Robert Benchley

14.

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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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.

16.

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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

18.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Devine, Dan

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Keller, Helen

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

25.

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

Ogden Nash

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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

27.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

28.

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

Michelangelo

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

35.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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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

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

40.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham