Motivational Quotes

Work

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

- Pennebaker, Don Alan

Best Quotes about Work

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Twain, Mark

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Blow, Susan

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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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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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

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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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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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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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'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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Parkinson's Law

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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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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

Escher, M. C.

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

Ruskin, John

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Gillis, Dobie

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo