Motivational Quotes

Work

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

- Romer, Frank

Best Quotes about Work

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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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

11.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Halas, George

14.

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.

15.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

16.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

17.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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

Escher, M. C.

19.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

20.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

22.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

23.

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

24.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

28.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

29.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

30.

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

32.

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

Benchley, Robert

33.

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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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

35.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

36.

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

Hal Lancaster

38.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

40.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

41.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

42.

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

43.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

44.

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

Barack Obama

47.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

48.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

49.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

50.

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