Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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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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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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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

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

Parkinson's Law

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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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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

45.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick