Motivational Quotes

Work

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

- Carty, Margaret

Best Quotes about Work

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

Voltaire

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

Blow, Susan

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

Michelangelo

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Lombardi, Vince

15.

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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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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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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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

29.

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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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Dodge, B.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

40.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

47.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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