Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

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

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

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

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

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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

Ford, Henry

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Twain, Mark

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

Ogden Nash

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

Rutte, Martin

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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

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Voltaire

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Carty, Margaret

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Oakley, Ann

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William