Motivational Quotes

Work

The sharp employ the sharp.

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Work

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Gillis, Dobie

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Bob Ross

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Maurois, Andre

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Riley, Pat

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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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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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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

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

Mcevoy, J. P.