Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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

Holtz, Lou

Work is a four letter word!

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

Hal Lancaster

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Parkinson's Law

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Proverb, French

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

David Shore

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Thomas A. Edison

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Riley, Pat

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

Sam Ewing

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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

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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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