Motivational Quotes

Work

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Work

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ashford, Evelyn

10.

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

11.

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.

John Ruskin

12.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

13.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

14.

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

Baldwin, James

15.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

18.

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

19.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

20.

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

Kemp, Jack

21.

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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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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

24.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

25.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

26.

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

Rutte, Martin

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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

28.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

29.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

30.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

31.

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

Lombardi, Vince

32.

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.

33.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

34.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

35.

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

36.

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

Peter Drucker

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

38.

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

Elbert Hubbard

39.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

40.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

41.

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

Twain, Mark

42.

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

Riley, Pat

43.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

47.

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

48.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

49.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

50.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne