Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Ogden Nash

Best Quotes about Work

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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.

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.

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

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

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

Benchley, Robert

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

David Shore

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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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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

21.

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

Carty, Margaret

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Butterworth, Eric

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Keller, Helen

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Devine, Dan

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul