Motivational Quotes

Work

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

- Fleyer, Paul J.

Best Quotes about Work

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

Allen, James

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

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Anatole France

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Slick, Grace

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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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Austen, Jane

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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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Bob Ross

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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.

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

Weil, Simone

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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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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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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Devine, Dan

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

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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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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert