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

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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 with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

20.

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.

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Proverb

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Riley, Pat

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Ogden Nash

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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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.

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Gillis, Dobie