Motivational Quotes

Work

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Work

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

Bhagavad Gita

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Theodore Roosevelt

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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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

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Rutte, Martin

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kemp, Jack

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Frost, Robert

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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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 calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Austen, Jane

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

Parkinson's Law

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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 greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

James M. Barrie

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.