Motivational Quotes

Work

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

- Wilfred A. Peterson

Best Quotes about Work

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Keller, Helen

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

Ogden Nash

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Bob Ross

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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Wilde, Oscar

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