Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Parkinson's Law

Best Quotes about Work

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

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

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

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

Austen, Jane

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

10.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

14.

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

Escher, M. C.

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

17.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Ford, Henry

19.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

20.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

21.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

22.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

25.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

David Shore

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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Work is a four letter word!

33.

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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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

35.

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

Slick, Grace

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

40.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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

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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Hubbard, Elbert