Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Ruskin, John

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Proverb, French

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Twain, Mark

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

17.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

18.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

21.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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

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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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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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

28.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Oakley, Ann

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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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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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

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Billings, Josh

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita