Motivational Quotes

Work

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

- Kipling, Rudyard

Best Quotes about Work

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

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

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

Don Marquis

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

11.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

18.

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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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

20.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Ruskin, John

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

27.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

28.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

Oprah Winfrey

30.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

31.

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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

33.

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

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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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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

36.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

44.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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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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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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