Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

10.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Devine, Dan

13.

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

Lowell, James Russell

15.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

18.

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

Frost, Robert

19.

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'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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

22.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

23.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

25.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

26.

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

27.

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

28.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

29.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

30.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

31.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

32.

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

33.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

34.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

35.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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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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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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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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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Twain, Mark