Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

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

Parkinson, Joseph

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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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

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Rutte, Martin

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.