Motivational Quotes

Work

Labor diligently to increase your property.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Work

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Reagan, Ronald

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

10.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

11.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

12.

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

Proverb

13.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

14.

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

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

Riley, Pat

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

19.

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 honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

25.

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

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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

27.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

29.

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

30.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

33.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Proverb, French

36.

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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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

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Pickens, T. Boone

41.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Paterno, Joe

43.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

44.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

46.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

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

David McCullough

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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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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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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.