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

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

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

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

David McCullough

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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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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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Ford, Henry

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

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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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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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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 the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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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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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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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 is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle