Motivational Quotes

Work

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

- Calloway, Wayne

Best Quotes about Work

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

Blow, Susan

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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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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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

Prince, Ray

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

Riley, Pat

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Mitchell, Warren

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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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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

Voltaire

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

Pavlova, Anna

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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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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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.

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn