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

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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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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

11.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

12.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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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

16.

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

17.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

18.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

19.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

20.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

21.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

22.

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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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

24.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

25.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

26.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

27.

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

28.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

29.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

30.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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

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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.

33.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

34.

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

35.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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

38.

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

Carty, Margaret

39.

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

40.

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

Rutte, Martin

41.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

42.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

43.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

45.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

46.

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

48.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Barrett, Colleen C.