Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Confucius

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Proverb, American

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

10.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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

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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.

John Ruskin

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

Romer, Frank

15.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

17.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

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

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

22.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

23.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

24.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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.

26.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

27.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

28.

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

29.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

30.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

33.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

34.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

35.

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

Butterworth, Eric

36.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

37.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

38.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

40.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

41.

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.

42.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

43.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

44.

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

45.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

46.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

47.

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

48.

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

Book, William Frederick

49.

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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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann