Motivational Quotes

Work

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Work

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

Prince, Ray

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

LeMond, Greg

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Barack Obama

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

Herbert, George

11.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

12.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

13.

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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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

15.

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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

18.

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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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

20.

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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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

23.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

24.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

25.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

27.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

28.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

29.

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

Riley, Pat

30.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

31.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Twain, Mark

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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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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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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.

38.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

41.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

42.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

43.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Bob Ross

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

Anatole France

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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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

49.

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

Diller, Phyllis

50.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David