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

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

Paterno, Joe

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

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Wilde, Oscar

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

19.

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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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

21.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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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

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

Ford, Henry

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Ford, Henry

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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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

Ruskin, John

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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 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