Motivational Quotes

Work

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Work

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Blow, Susan

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Keller, Helen

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

11.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

12.

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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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

14.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

15.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

16.

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

Paterno, Joe

17.

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

Mitchell, Warren

18.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

19.

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

20.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

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

Bob Ross

23.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

24.

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

25.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

26.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

27.

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

28.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

29.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

30.

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

Baldwin, James

31.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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

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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

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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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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

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

Confucius

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Thomas A. Edison

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

49.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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