Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Slick, Grace

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

15.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Maurois, Andre

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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.

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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 six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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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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

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

38.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Rutte, Martin

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Proverb, American

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul