Motivational Quotes

Work

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

- Jerome, Jerome K.

Best Quotes about Work

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

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

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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

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

Mitchell, Warren

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Anatole France

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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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 is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Butterworth, Eric

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Oakley, Ann

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

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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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