Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Barack Obama

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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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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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bob Ross

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Diller, Phyllis

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

33.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proverb

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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

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

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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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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

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

Halas, George

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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Work is a four letter word!

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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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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert