Motivational Quotes

Work

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Picasso, Pablo

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Baldwin, James

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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.

John Ruskin

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

22.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

24.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

27.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

28.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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

30.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

31.

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

Peter Drucker

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

Voltaire

33.

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

34.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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.

43.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

44.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

45.

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

Voltaire

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don