Motivational Quotes

Work

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

- James M. Barrie

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Parkinson, Joseph

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Gillis, Dobie

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

11.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

12.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

28.

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 does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Gorky, Maxim

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rutte, Martin