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 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

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Voltaire

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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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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

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Blow, Susan

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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 is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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.

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Diane Ackerman

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

41.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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

Peter Drucker

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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

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

Herbert, George

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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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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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Mcevoy, J. P.