Motivational Quotes

Work

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Work

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Holtz, Lou

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

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

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, French

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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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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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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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...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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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Prince, Ray

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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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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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Voltaire

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Parkinson's Law

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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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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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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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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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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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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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

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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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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson