Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Dorothy L. Sayers

Best Quotes about Work

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Proverb

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

10.

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

11.

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

Fox, Jim

12.

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

Ogden Nash

13.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

14.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

15.

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

Oakley, Ann

16.

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

Voltaire

17.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

19.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

20.

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

21.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

22.

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

Foster, Jodie

23.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

24.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

25.

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

Paterno, Joe

26.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

27.

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

28.

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

Confucius

29.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret 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

31.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

35.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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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

37.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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.

39.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

40.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

41.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Stengel, Casey

45.

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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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

49.

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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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close