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

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

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

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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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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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Halas, George

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.