Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

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

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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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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

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

Michelangelo

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

LeMond, Greg

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

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

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

Holtz, Lou

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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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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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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