Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Work

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Wilde, Oscar

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

David Shore

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

Sand, George

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bible

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

Frost, Robert

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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

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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.

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

Riley, Pat

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Parkinson's Law

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Roosevelt, Theodore