Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

11.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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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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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

21.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Halas, George

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

Ogden Nash

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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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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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Anatole France

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.