Motivational Quotes

Work

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

- Sam Ewing

Best Quotes about 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

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Gorky, Maxim

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.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

Book, William Frederick

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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Work is a four letter word!

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

David McCullough

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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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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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 am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Ogden Nash

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Devine, Dan

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.