Motivational Quotes

Work

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Work

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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

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

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

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

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

12.

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

Proverb, American

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

21.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Escher, M. C.

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Herold, Don

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks