Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Parkinson's Law

Best Quotes about Work

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Thomas Carlyle

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

18.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Riley, Pat

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Butterworth, Eric