Motivational Quotes

Work

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

- Grant, Ulysses S.

Best Quotes about Work

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

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

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

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

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

11.

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

Ogden Nash

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

Rohn, Jim

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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.

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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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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Butterworth, Eric

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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

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

Parkinson's Law

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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.

Sir William Osler

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Dodge, B.

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

David Shore

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

Devine, Dan

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Anatole France

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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Butler, Samuel

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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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