Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Oakley, Ann

Best Quotes about Work

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

Devine, Dan

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

11.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

12.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

15.

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

Confucius

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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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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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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.

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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 man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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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 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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Work is a four letter word!

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

44.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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.

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

Keller, Helen

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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