Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

Milsap, Ronnie

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Voltaire

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

LeMond, Greg

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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 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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Parkinson's Law

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Bob Ross

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.