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

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Pavlova, Anna

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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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 I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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! 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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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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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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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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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

Keller, Helen

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.