Motivational Quotes

Work

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Work

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

Riley, Pat

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Henry David Thoreau

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Lombardi, Vince

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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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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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Voltaire

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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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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Pavlova, Anna

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The