Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Work

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Thomas A. Edison

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Johnson, Samuel

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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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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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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

Lowell, James Russell

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Riley, Pat

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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 a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach