Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Mansfield, Katherine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

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

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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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.

11.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

12.

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

Ford, Henry

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

Riley, Pat

20.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

21.

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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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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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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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

27.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

30.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

33.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

43.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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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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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

48.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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