Motivational Quotes

Work

Plaster thick, some will stick.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

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

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Hepburn, Katharine

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Keller, Helen

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Twain, Mark

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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

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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

Halas, George

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Blow, Susan

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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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

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques