Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Halas, George

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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

David McCullough

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Riley, Pat

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph