Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Work

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

Parkinson's Law

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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

Jones, Beverly

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

Paterno, Joe

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Maurois, Andre

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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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 with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

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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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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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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