Motivational Quotes

Work

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

12.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

18.

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

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

20.

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

James M. Barrie

21.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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

25.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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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

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

Gillis, Dobie

29.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

31.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

32.

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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

36.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

40.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

41.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

43.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

44.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

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

Jong, Erica

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

47.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

48.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

49.

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 nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert