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

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Ashford, Evelyn

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

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

Bible

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

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

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.

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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 consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Diane Ackerman

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Barack Obama

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb