Motivational Quotes

Work

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Work

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

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

Romer, Frank

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

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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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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Proverb, French

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

David Shore

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Parkinson's Law

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.