Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- James M. Barrie

Best Quotes about Work

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Oakley, Ann

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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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.

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Riley, Pat

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Riley, Pat

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Ruskin, John

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

Ford, Henry

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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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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Parkinson's Law

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

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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