Motivational Quotes

Work

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

- Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

Best Quotes about Work

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lowell, James Russell

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Henry David Thoreau

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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

10.

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

11.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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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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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

18.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

23.

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

Marquis, Don

24.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

25.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

26.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Thomas A. Edison

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

48.

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

Don Marquis

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

Keller, Helen

50.

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