Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Kipling, Rudyard

Best Quotes about Work

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Twain, Mark

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

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

David McCullough

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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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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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

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

Michelangelo

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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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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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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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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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

39.

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

Marquis, Don

40.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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 either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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