Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Work

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

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

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

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kemp, Jack

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Lennon, John

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

David Shore

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

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Book, William Frederick