Motivational Quotes

Work

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Work

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Proverb, French

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Prince, Ray

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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.

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Book, William Frederick

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Riley, Pat

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Angelou, Maya

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

43.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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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