Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- David McCullough

Best Quotes about Work

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Proverb, American

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

20.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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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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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Robert Benchley

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

32.

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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.

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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

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

Paterno, Joe

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