Motivational Quotes

Work

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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 sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Sand, George

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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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Peter Drucker

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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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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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

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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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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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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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Work is a four letter word!

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

David McCullough

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

Carty, Margaret

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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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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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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