Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Work

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

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

David McCullough

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Butler, Samuel

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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

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

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Escher, M. C.

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Riley, Pat

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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