Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Work

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Jones, Beverly

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Peter Drucker

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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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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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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

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Carty, Margaret

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.