Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Best Quotes about Work

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

Oakley, Ann

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

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

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

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

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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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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Rutte, Martin

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

David McCullough

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

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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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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Robert Morley