Motivational Quotes

Work

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

- Steve Jobs

Best Quotes about Work

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

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.

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.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Book, William Frederick

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Rohn, Jim

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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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

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

Riley, Pat

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

James M. Barrie

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Thomas A. Edison

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Howard Newton