Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Devine, Dan

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

...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

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Blow, Susan

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

11.

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 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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

14.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

18.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

26.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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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.

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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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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.

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

Riley, Pat

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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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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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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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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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.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Ruskin, John

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael