Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Escher, M. C.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Voltaire

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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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 is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, 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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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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Butterworth, Eric

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.