Motivational Quotes

Work

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Ford, Henry

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

10.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

11.

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

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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 question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Escher, M. C.

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Barack Obama

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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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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

31.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Billings, Josh

33.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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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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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

39.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

44.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

48.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

50.

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