Motivational Quotes

Work

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

- Escher, M. C.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Anatole France

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bob Ross

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Proverb, American

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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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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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

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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

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

Devine, Dan

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

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Maurois, Andre

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

Herbert, George

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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