Motivational Quotes

Work

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Work

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Reagan, Ronald

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

11.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Herold, Don

17.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Johnson, James Weldon

20.

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

21.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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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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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

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

27.

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

Escher, M. C.

28.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

29.

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

Peter Drucker

30.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Parkinson's Law

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

40.

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

Austen, Jane

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

42.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

49.

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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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred