Motivational Quotes

Work

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

- Grant, Ulysses S.

Best Quotes about Work

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Baldwin, James

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Rutte, Martin

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

11.

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

Rohn, Jim

12.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

13.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

18.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

19.

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

20.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

21.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

22.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Twain, Mark

25.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

28.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

29.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

30.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

31.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

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

Barzan, Gerald

33.

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.

34.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

35.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

36.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

37.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

38.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

44.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

45.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Voltaire

47.

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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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

49.

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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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.