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

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

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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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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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

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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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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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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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.

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Voltaire

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Foster, Jodie

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

Garfield, James A.

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Keller, Helen

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Richard Bach

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard