Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Halas, George

Best Quotes about Work

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

Halas, George

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Richard Bach

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

Keller, Helen

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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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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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

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Bob Ross

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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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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Picasso, Pablo

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Keller, Helen

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.