Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Parkinson's Law

Best Quotes about Work

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

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

Riley, Pat

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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.

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

Stengel, Casey

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

11.

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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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

13.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

14.

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

James M. Barrie

15.

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 a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

17.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

18.

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

Rohn, Jim

19.

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

Maurois, Andre

20.

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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

22.

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

24.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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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

27.

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

Keller, Helen

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

Don Marquis

29.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

31.

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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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

Carty, Margaret

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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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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

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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 average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Bible

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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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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

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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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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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.