Motivational Quotes

Work

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

- Stern, Edith Mendel

Best Quotes about Work

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

Prince, Ray

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Bob Ross

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

James M. Barrie

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

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

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

Rohn, Jim

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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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

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Parkinson's Law

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Keller, Helen

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Proverb, American

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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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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

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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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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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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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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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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Don Marquis

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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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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.