Motivational Quotes

Work

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

- Garfield, James A.

Best Quotes about Work

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Richard Bach

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

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

Henry David Thoreau

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Proverb, American

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

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

Ogden Nash

11.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

12.

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

14.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

15.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

17.

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

Butterworth, Eric

18.

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

Keller, Helen

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

Confucius

20.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

21.

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

Parkinson's Law

22.

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

Blow, Susan

23.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

27.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

28.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

29.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

30.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

32.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

33.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

35.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

44.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

45.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Thomas Carlyle

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

49.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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