Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Work

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

Keller, Helen

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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.

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

Halas, George

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

David McCullough

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

10.

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

Don Marquis

11.

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

Romer, Frank

12.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

13.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

15.

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

Proverb, American

16.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Gillis, Dobie

19.

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

20.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

21.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

23.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

24.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

25.

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.

26.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

27.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

28.

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

Barack Obama

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

Thomas Carlyle

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

33.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

38.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

39.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

40.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

41.

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

Reagan, Ronald

42.

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

Voltaire

43.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

44.

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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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.