Motivational Quotes

Work

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

- Pickens, T. Boone

Best Quotes about Work

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Riley, Pat

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

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

Maurois, Andre

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Lennon, John

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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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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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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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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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

21.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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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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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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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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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Work is a four letter word!

28.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

40.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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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.

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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