Motivational Quotes

Work

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Work

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Holtz, Lou

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

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

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ford, Henry

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

Butterworth, Eric

11.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

12.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

18.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

Fox, Jim

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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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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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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

33.

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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

35.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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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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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

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

Jong, Erica

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Hubbard, Elbert

49.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore