Motivational Quotes

Work

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

- Parkinson, C. Northcote

Best Quotes about Work

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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.

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

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

David Shore

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

Mitchell, Warren

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Bob Ross

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Book, William Frederick

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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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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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Parkinson's Law

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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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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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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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

Book, William Frederick

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt