Motivational Quotes

Work

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

- Newton, Sir Isaac

Best Quotes about Work

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Voltaire

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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

Prince, Ray

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Herbert, George

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

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Robert Benchley

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Confucius

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

Paterno, Joe

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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 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

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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

Proverb, American