Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Gretzky, Wayne

Best Quotes about Work

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Gillis, Dobie

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Escher, M. C.

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.

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

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Jong, Erica

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

18.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

20.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

21.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

23.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Work is a four letter word!

27.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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

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

David McCullough

30.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Billings, Josh

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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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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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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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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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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