Motivational Quotes

Work

How do I work? I grope.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Work

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Devine, Dan

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

Bhagavad Gita

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

10.

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.

11.

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

Austen, Jane

12.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

14.

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

15.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

16.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

17.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

18.

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

Oprah Winfrey

19.

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

20.

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

Twain, Mark

21.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

22.

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

Pavlova, Anna

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

24.

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

25.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

26.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

27.

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

28.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

29.

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

30.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

31.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

32.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

33.

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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

35.

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

Bible

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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

37.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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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

39.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

40.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

41.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

42.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

43.

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

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

46.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

47.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

48.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Voltaire