Motivational Quotes

Work

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

- Larkin, Philip

Best Quotes about Work

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rohn, Jim

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Marquis, Don

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

Maurois, Andre

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Baldwin, James

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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 with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

25.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Keller, Helen

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Barack Obama

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Riley, Pat

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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