Motivational Quotes

Work

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

- Smith, Dr. Walter

Best Quotes about Work

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Parkinson, Joseph

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Marquis, Don

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

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Barack Obama

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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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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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

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

Twain, Mark

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Butterworth, Eric

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

31.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Blow, Susan

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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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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Work is a four letter word!

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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