Motivational Quotes

Work

Work alone is noble.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Work

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

Howard Newton

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

Jong, Erica

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

Twain, Mark

10.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

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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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

13.

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

Angelou, Maya

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

15.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

17.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

20.

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

21.

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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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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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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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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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

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

Fox, Jim

29.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

30.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

31.

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

32.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

33.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

34.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

35.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

36.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

37.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

Voltaire

44.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

47.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

48.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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