Motivational Quotes

Work

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Work

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

Prince, Ray

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

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 must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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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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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Barack Obama

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.