Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Gorky, Maxim

Best Quotes about Work

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

Picasso, Pablo

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

...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

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

19.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Riley, Pat

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Keller, Helen

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

LeMond, Greg

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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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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Peter Drucker

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick