Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Proverb, French

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

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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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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Twain, Mark

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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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

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Baldwin, James

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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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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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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

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Keller, Helen

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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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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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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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