Motivational Quotes

Work

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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

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

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

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Keller, Helen

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Paterno, Joe

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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

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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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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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Twain, Mark

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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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