Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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

David McCullough

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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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

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

Robert Morley

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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.

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

David Shore

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

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

21.

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.

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Angelou, Maya

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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

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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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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

42.

Work is a four letter word!

43.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette