Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Carty, Margaret

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

10.

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

Twain, Mark

11.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

12.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

13.

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

14.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

15.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

18.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

19.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

26.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

27.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

28.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

32.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

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

Lombardi, Vince

34.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

35.

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

36.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

37.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

38.

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

39.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

40.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

41.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

42.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

43.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

44.

Work is a four letter word!

45.

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

Herold, Don

46.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan