Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Austen, Jane

Best Quotes about Work

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Peter Drucker

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 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 believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Frost, Robert

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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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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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Mitchell, Warren

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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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

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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

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

Halas, George

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Shakarian, David

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...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

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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