Motivational Quotes

Work

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Work

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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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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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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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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 woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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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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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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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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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

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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