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

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

Herbert, George

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

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.

John Ruskin

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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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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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

13.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Butterworth, Eric

21.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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

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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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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Proverb, French

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

31.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Book, William Frederick

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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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.

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey