Motivational Quotes

Work

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

- Robert Benchley

Best Quotes about Work

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

Proverb, American

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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

Richard Bach

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.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Jong, Erica

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

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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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

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

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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

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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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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Halas, George

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

Dodge, B.

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Diller, Phyllis

30.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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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

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

34.

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

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

Shakarian, David

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis