Motivational Quotes

Work

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Work

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Paterno, Joe

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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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

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

David McCullough

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Voltaire

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Marquis, Don

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Keller, Helen

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 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

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Picasso, Pablo