Motivational Quotes

Work

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Halas, George

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

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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.

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

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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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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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

19.

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

Rivers, Joan

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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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

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

Voltaire

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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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Escher, M. C.

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Ford, Henry

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

David Shore

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Book, William Frederick

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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

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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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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey