Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Barrett, Colleen C.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Michelangelo

10.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

11.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

12.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

14.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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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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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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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.

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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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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

29.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Prince, Ray

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

34.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Weil, Simone

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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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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.