Motivational Quotes

Work

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

- Calloway, Wayne

Best Quotes about Work

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

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

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

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

Johnson, James Weldon

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Riley, Pat

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Gillis, Dobie

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, French

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Richard Bach

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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.

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

Ford, Henry

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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

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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