Motivational Quotes

Work

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Work

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Devine, Dan

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Paterno, Joe

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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

Proverb, American

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Ogden Nash

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

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

Robert Morley

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

Kemp, Jack

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Work is a four letter word!

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb