Motivational Quotes

Work

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Work

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

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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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

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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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...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

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Howard Newton

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

Barack Obama

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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

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

Kemp, Jack

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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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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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 time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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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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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Twain, Mark

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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.

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Escher, M. C.

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

James M. Barrie

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy