Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is more fun than fun.

- Coward, Noel

Best Quotes about Work

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, French

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

...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

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Ruskin, John

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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.

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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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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

Michelangelo

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Keller, Helen

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Riley, Pat

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Twain, Mark

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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.

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Book, William Frederick

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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