Motivational Quotes

Work

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

- Howard Newton

Best Quotes about Work

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

David McCullough

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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...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

11.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gillis, Dobie

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Reagan, Ronald

20.

Work is a four letter word!

21.

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

Baldwin, James

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

David Shore

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Thomas Carlyle

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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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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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Confucius

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Ford, Henry

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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.

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.