Motivational Quotes

Work

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Work

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Oakley, Ann

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

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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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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Proverb

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Blow, Susan

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Holtz, Lou

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Butler, Samuel

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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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