Motivational Quotes

Work

Inspiration comes of working every day.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Work

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Stengel, Casey

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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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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

Weil, Simone

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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

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

31.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

37.

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

Gorky, Maxim

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Herold, Don

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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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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