Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Prince, Ray

Best Quotes about Work

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

Twain, Mark

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Barzan, Gerald

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

David McCullough

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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 and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

Escher, M. C.

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Maurois, Andre

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

Ruskin, John

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.