Motivational Quotes

Work

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about 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

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

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

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Parkinson's Law

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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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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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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Allen, James

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

29.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

David McCullough

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Maurois, Andre

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

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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

Devine, Dan

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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.