Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Barack Obama

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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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 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

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

23.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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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! 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

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Angelou, Maya

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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