Motivational Quotes

Work

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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Best Quotes about Work

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

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

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Blow, Susan

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

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

10.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

11.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

12.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

13.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

14.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

15.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

16.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

17.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

18.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

19.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

20.

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

21.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

23.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

Work is a four letter word!

25.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

26.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

27.

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

28.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

29.

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

Huxley, Aldous

30.

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

David Shore

31.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

32.

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

Baldwin, James

33.

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

34.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

35.

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

36.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

37.

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

Austen, Jane

38.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

39.

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

Butler, Samuel

40.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

46.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

47.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

48.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

49.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

50.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion