Best Work Quotes

• You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

  Marie Corelli

  Beautiful, Hard Work, Kids

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• He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Moving On, Dance

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.188, Penguin

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  A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Dream, Determination

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  Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

  Bette Davis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hard Work

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

  Jim Rohn

  Funny, Motivational, Positive Thinking

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 09, 2017

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• Work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Day Jobs, Labor Day

  Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

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• The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

  Steve Jobs

  Work, Believe, Loving What You Do

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

  Anne Frank

  Motivational, Positive, Work

  Anne Frank (1959). “Works”

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• Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 05, 2017

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• There is no substitute for hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Perseverance, Morning

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Work, Humorous

  Three Men in a Boat ch. 15 (1889)

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• The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "A Square Deal". Theodore Roosevelt's speech to farmers at the New York State Agricultural Association in Syracuse, New York, September 7, 1903.

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• Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

  Samuel Butler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Music

  Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.57, Samuel Butler

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• The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Summer, Difficult

  "Dirty Hands". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, act 6, sc. 2, 1948.

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Work, Light

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• I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

  Lou Holtz (1990). “The Fighting Spirit: A Championship Season at Notre Dame”

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• The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

  Earl Nightingale

  Motivational, Positive, Jobs

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.164, Lulu.com

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• For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

  Don Marquis

  Money, Work, Men

  Quoted in Edward Anthony, O Rare Don Marquis (1962)

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• If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Milton Berle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

  Alistair Cooke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Alistair Cooke (2012). “Reporting America”, p.14, The Overlook Press

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