Motivational Quotes

Work

By the work one knows the workmen.

- Jean De La Fontaine

Best Quotes about Work

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Blow, Susan

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

Pavlova, Anna

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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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

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

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Prince, Ray

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Michelangelo

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

James M. Barrie

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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 reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Henry David Thoreau

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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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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert