Motivational Quotes

Work

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

- Grant, Ulysses S.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Milsap, Ronnie

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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.

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

LeMond, Greg

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

10.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

11.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

12.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

13.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

14.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

15.

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

16.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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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

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

20.

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.

21.

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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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

24.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

25.

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

David McCullough

26.

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

Reagan, Ronald

27.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

28.

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

29.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

30.

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

Austen, Jane

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

32.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

33.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

34.

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

35.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Mitchell, Warren

39.

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

40.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

43.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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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

45.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

46.

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

47.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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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