Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Brown, Dean Charles R.

Best Quotes about Work

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

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

David Shore

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

Atkinson, Brooks

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Pavlova, Anna

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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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

12.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Prince, Ray

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

15.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

16.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

Austen, Jane

18.

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

Peter Drucker

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

Weil, Simone

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

22.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

23.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

27.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

30.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

31.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

35.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Mitchell, Warren

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Holtz, Lou

39.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

40.

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

41.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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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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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.

44.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Oakley, Ann

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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