Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Drucker, Peter F.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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

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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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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

21.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Mitchell, Warren

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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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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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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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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

38.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

41.

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 champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

46.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

48.

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

David McCullough

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor