Motivational Quotes

Work

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

- Hepburn, Katharine

Best Quotes about Work

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

Riley, Pat

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

Rohn, Jim

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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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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 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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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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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

33.

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

Parkinson's Law

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Richard Bach

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

Oakley, Ann

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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