Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Parkinson, Joseph

Best Quotes about Work

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Carty, Margaret

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

18.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

19.

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 have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Michelangelo

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

33.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

34.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

35.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

38.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

43.

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

Angelou, Maya

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

Maurois, Andre

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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

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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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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