Motivational Quotes

Work

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

- Ecker, Frederick Hudson

Best Quotes about Work

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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

Confucius

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

Oakley, Ann

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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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Gillis, Dobie

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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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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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

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Devine, Dan

22.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Richard Bach

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

Ogden Nash

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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 fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

35.

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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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew