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

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Fox, Jim

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

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

Voltaire

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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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 way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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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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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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

Holtz, Lou

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Work is a four letter word!

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.