Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Richard Bach

Best Quotes about Work

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

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.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

10.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

11.

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

Bob Ross

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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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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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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

Parkinson's Law

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Keller, Helen

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

40.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

49.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas