Motivational Quotes

Work

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

- Parkinson, C. Northcote

Best Quotes about Work

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

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

Reagan, Ronald

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Romer, Frank

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

Herbert, George

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

11.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

12.

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

Rutte, Martin

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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

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

David McCullough

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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 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 only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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 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

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

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

Weil, Simone

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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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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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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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Picasso, Pablo