Motivational Quotes

Work

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

- Peter Drucker

Best Quotes about Work

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

Lowell, James Russell

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Huxley, Aldous

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Herbert, George

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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.

John Ruskin

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

Bob Ross

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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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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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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