Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

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

Gretzky, Wayne

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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

Paterno, Joe

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

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

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Voltaire

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Confucius

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Ruskin, John

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

Allen, James

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Gorky, Maxim

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Proverb, French

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

Peter Drucker

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

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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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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