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

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Jong, Erica

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Billings, Josh

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Frost, Robert

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

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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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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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Riley, Pat

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

James M. Barrie

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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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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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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim