Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Voltaire

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

11.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

Parkinson's Law

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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

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

Berra, Yogi

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Voltaire

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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

23.

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

Pavlova, Anna

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Gorky, Maxim

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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

33.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Bible

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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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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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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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 six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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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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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