Motivational Quotes

Work

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

- Sinise, Gary

Best Quotes about Work

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Barack Obama

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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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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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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Bhagavad Gita

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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.

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Butterworth, Eric

29.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Oprah Winfrey

31.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Keller, Helen

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Thomas Carlyle

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

43.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

Proverb, American

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark