Motivational Quotes

Work

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

- Michelangelo

Best Quotes about Work

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

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Parkinson's Law

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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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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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

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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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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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.

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Thomas Carlyle

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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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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 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

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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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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