Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Benchley, Robert

Best Quotes about Work

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

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

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

Hill, Napoleon

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Voltaire

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

10.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

12.

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

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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

18.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Butler, Samuel

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

22.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

25.

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

26.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

27.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

28.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

29.

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

Keller, Helen

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

Paterno, Joe

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

33.

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

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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

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

David McCullough

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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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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

40.

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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

47.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

50.

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.