Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Salk, Dr. Jonas

Best Quotes about Work

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

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Sand, George

10.

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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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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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.

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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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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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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Work is a four letter word!

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

25.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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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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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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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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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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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

34.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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

Ogden Nash

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Picasso, Pablo

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Herbert, George

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

Holtz, Lou

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew