Motivational Quotes

Work

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

- James M. Barrie

Best Quotes about Work

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

Butterworth, Eric

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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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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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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

22.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

31.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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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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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Stengel, Casey

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

40.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Escher, M. C.

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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Wilfred A. Peterson