Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

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

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Twain, Mark

10.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

11.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

13.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

15.

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

Allen, James

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

18.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

19.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

20.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

21.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

23.

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

Rutte, Martin

24.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

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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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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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

31.

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

Hal Lancaster

32.

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

33.

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

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Paterno, Joe

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

41.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

Peter Drucker

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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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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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Ruskin, John

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

Escher, M. C.