Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about 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

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Benchley, Robert

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

13.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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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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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Book, William Frederick

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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