Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

- Barrett, Colleen C.

Best Quotes about Work

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Robert Benchley

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Thomas A. Edison

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Weil, Simone

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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

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Paterno, Joe

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Keller, Helen

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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

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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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

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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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

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

Barack Obama

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.