Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Butler, Samuel

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Holtz, Lou

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

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

Confucius

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Prince, Ray

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

28.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Paterno, Joe

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Blow, Susan

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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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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

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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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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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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat