Motivational Quotes

Work

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

- Cahill, Michael C.

Best Quotes about Work

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

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

19.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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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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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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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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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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

Bhagavad Gita

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Baldwin, James

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Robert Benchley

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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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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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.