Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Butterworth, Eric

Best Quotes about Work

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

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

Berra, Yogi

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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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.

Robert Benchley

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Riley, Pat

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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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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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 with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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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

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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 love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Voltaire

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

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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 longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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.

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin