Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Proverb, French

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

Rutte, Martin

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Ruskin, John

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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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Diller, Phyllis

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Devine, Dan

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

Richard Bach

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

Peter Drucker

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.