Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Billings, Josh

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

Barack Obama

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

Twain, Mark

11.

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

Dodge, B.

12.

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

Garfield, James A.

13.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

14.

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

16.

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

Voltaire

17.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

18.

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

Thomas A. Edison

19.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

20.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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.

22.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

24.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

25.

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

Proverb, American

26.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

27.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

28.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

29.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

30.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

33.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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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

36.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

37.

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.

38.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

40.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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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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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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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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

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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

49.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

Twain, Mark