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

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

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Halas, George

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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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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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Thomas A. Edison

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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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 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

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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.

Robert Benchley

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

Maurois, Andre

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Richard Bach

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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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

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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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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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Riley, Pat