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

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Coolidge, Calvin

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

Parkinson's Law

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

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Prince, Ray

10.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

11.

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.

12.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

13.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

14.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

15.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

16.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

17.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

18.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

19.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

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

Bob Ross

21.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

22.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

25.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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

27.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

28.

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

29.

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

Rutte, Martin

30.

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

31.

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

Twain, Mark

32.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

33.

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

Howard Newton

34.

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

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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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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

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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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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

40.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

42.

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

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Sand, George

45.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

46.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

47.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim