Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Richard Bach

Best Quotes about Work

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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...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

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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

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Devine, Dan

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

Michelangelo

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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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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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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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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 daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Howard Newton

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

Rutte, Martin

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.