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

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

Lombardi, Vince

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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.

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

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

Voltaire

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Peter Drucker

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

Bob Ross

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Herbert, George

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Robert Benchley

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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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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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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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 with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel