Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Gillis, Dobie

Best Quotes about Work

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rutte, Martin

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Gretzky, Wayne

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

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

Riley, Pat

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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

11.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

14.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

17.

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

Paterno, Joe

18.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

19.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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

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

Fox, Jim

23.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

27.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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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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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

33.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

34.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

35.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

36.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Elbert Hubbard

40.

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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

42.

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

Gorky, Maxim

43.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

44.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

45.

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.

46.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George