Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Parkinson's Law

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

10.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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

13.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

14.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

15.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

16.

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

Devine, Dan

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

21.

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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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

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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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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

30.

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

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Oakley, Ann

35.

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

36.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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

38.

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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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison