Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Escher, M. C.

Best Quotes about Work

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Bible

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

LeMond, Greg

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Baldwin, James

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Ruskin, John

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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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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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

28.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

30.

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

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

33.

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 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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.