Motivational Quotes

Work

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Elbert Hubbard

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Austen, Jane

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Herbert, George

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

Parkinson's Law

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

31.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Thomas Carlyle

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Butterworth, Eric

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Riley, Pat