Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Keller, Helen

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Huxley, Aldous

12.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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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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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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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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Riley, Pat

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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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

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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 eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick