Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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.

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

Benchley, Robert

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla