Motivational Quotes

Work

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Work

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

Work is a four letter word!

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Stengel, Casey

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

10.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

11.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

12.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

13.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

14.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

15.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

18.

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

19.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

20.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

25.

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

Oprah Winfrey

26.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

27.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

28.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

29.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

30.

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.

31.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

33.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

34.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Butterworth, Eric

36.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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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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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

40.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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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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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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