Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Barzan, Gerald

Best Quotes about Work

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Pavlova, Anna

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

Sam Ewing

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

Dodge, B.

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Halas, George

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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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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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Maurois, Andre

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Bob Ross

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Paterno, Joe

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If food were free, why work?