Motivational Quotes

Work

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

- Blow, Susan

Best Quotes about Work

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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 literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Elbert Hubbard

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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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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

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

Richard Bach

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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

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.