Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Roosevelt, Theodore

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

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

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

Bible

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

11.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

12.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

13.

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

14.

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

David Shore

15.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

16.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

18.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

20.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

21.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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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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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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

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Devine, Dan

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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.

Robert Benchley

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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 achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

32.

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

Barack Obama

33.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

41.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Maurois, Andre

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

45.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

46.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Prince, Ray

48.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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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