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

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Paterno, Joe

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

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

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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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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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Escher, M. C.

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Voltaire

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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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 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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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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