Motivational Quotes

Work

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

- Leon, Sy

Best Quotes about Work

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

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

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Austen, Jane

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Paterno, Joe

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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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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 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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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