Motivational Quotes

Work

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Best Quotes about Work

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Sam Ewing

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

Lombardi, Vince

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

10.

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

11.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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

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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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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

15.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

16.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

18.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

19.

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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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

22.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

23.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

24.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

25.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

26.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

27.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

28.

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

Austen, Jane

29.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

30.

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

31.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

32.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

33.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

34.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

36.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

Oprah Winfrey

38.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

40.

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

Barack Obama

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

46.

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

Hal Lancaster

47.

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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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

49.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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