Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Miyazawa, Kiichi

Best Quotes about Work

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Ogden Nash

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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.

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

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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 is a four letter word!

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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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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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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Halas, George

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

Devine, Dan

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

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Herbert, George

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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

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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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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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.