Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thomas Carlyle

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Book, William Frederick

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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.

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Rohn, Jim

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Keller, Helen

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

Proverb, American

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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

Keller, Helen

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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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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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

Don Marquis

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire