Motivational Quotes

Work

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Work

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

Kemp, Jack

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Fox, Jim

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Book, William Frederick

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Austen, Jane

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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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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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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Work is a four letter word!

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst