Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Work

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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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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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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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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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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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Richard Bach

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Better to burn out than rust out.