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

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

Riley, Pat

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Ogden Nash

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

David McCullough

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gillis, Dobie

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Book, William Frederick

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

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Lombardi, Vince

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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