Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Proverb, American

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

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Michelangelo

11.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

12.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Oakley, Ann

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Bhagavad Gita

24.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

25.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Ford, Henry

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

28.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Milsap, Ronnie

30.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Ogden Nash

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Vaneigem, Raoul