Motivational Quotes

Work

Work alone is noble.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Work

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Thatcher, Margaret

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

11.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Howard Newton

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

17.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

21.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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

25.

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

Escher, M. C.

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

28.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

34.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

35.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

36.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

39.

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

40.

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

41.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Oakley, Ann

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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

46.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

47.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas