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

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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.

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

Robert Morley

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

...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

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Halas, George

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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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

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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.

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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

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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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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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

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Twain, Mark

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Herbert, George

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

48.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat