Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Work

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Henry David Thoreau

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Oprah Winfrey

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Fox, Jim

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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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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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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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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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Kemp, Jack

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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

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Book, William Frederick

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Sand, George

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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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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Angelou, Maya

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Holtz, Lou

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Work is a four letter word!

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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