Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

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

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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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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

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Blow, Susan

20.

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

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

25.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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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 woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

30.

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

Escher, M. C.

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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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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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Keller, Helen

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

David Shore

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Parkinson's Law

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

44.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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 put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Proverb, French

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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