Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

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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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Prince, Ray

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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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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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara