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

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Austen, Jane

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

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Holtz, Lou

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

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

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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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

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

Parkinson's Law

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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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

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

Gillis, Dobie

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Billings, Josh

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Riley, Pat

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

Richard Bach

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Howard Newton

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Halas, George

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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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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Proverb, American

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

Frost, Robert

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul