Motivational Quotes

Work

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Keller, Helen

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

Butterworth, Eric

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

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

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

LeMond, Greg

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

16.

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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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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

19.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

21.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

22.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Work is a four letter word!

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

27.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

28.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

29.

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

30.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

33.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

34.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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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

36.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

39.

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

40.

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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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna