Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Sand, George

Best Quotes about Work

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Riley, Pat

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

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Frost, Robert

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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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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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.

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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

16.

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

Maurois, Andre

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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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.

31.

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

Baldwin, James

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

33.

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

Pavlova, Anna

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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.

John Ruskin

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Austen, Jane

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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.

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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