Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Parkinson's Law

Best Quotes about Work

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

Ogden Nash

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Stengel, Casey

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

...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

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

11.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

13.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Twain, Mark

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

27.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

28.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

29.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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

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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.

35.

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

Carty, Margaret

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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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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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.