Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Parkinson's Law

Best Quotes about Work

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Michelangelo

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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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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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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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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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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! 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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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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Work is a four letter word!