Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Wran, Neville Kenneth

Best Quotes about Work

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Herbert, George

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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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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Angelou, Maya

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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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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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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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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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou