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

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Voltaire

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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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

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

15.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

16.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Don Marquis

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Bible

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Blow, Susan

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.