Motivational Quotes

Work

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Work

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Atkinson, Brooks

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Proverb, French

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Ogden Nash

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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Carlyle, Thomas

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.