Motivational Quotes

Work

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

- Conrad, Joseph

Best Quotes about Work

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

Gillis, Dobie

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Voltaire

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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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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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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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

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

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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 the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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