Motivational Quotes

Work

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Work

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

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

Stengel, Casey

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

Sam Ewing

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

32.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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

Angelou, Maya

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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.

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Benchley, Robert

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John