Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Work

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

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

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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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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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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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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

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Twain, Mark

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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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

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Theodore Roosevelt