Motivational Quotes

Work

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

- Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Best Quotes about Work

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

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Keller, Helen

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

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

Henry David Thoreau

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

10.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

11.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

12.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

13.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Syrus, Publilius

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

17.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

19.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

20.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

21.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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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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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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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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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

30.

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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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

32.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

33.

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

David McCullough

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

36.

Work is a four letter word!

37.

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

Halas, George

40.

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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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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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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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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