Motivational Quotes

Work

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

- David Shore

Best Quotes about Work

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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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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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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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 time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Berra, Yogi

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Voltaire

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Rutte, Martin

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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