Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Blow, Susan

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

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

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.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Mitchell, Warren

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

11.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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

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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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

18.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Michelangelo

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

Devine, Dan

22.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Lennon, John

24.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

25.

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

Proverb, French

27.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

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

29.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

30.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

32.

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

Jones, Beverly

33.

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Prince, Ray

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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

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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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

42.

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

Proverb

43.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

50.

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

Marquis, Don