Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Barrett, Colleen C.

Best Quotes about Work

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Twain, Mark

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

29.

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

Jong, Erica

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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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

34.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

Michelangelo

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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.

37.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Riley, Pat

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

Keller, Helen

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

Book, William Frederick

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

46.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat