Motivational Quotes

Work

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

- Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Best Quotes about Work

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

Gorky, Maxim

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Mitchell, Warren

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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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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

Proverb, French

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

Keller, Helen

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

Henry David Thoreau

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

Ruskin, John

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Thomas Carlyle

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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 really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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