Motivational Quotes

Work

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

- LeMond, Greg

Best Quotes about Work

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

Oprah Winfrey

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

10.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Voltaire

12.

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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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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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

19.

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

David McCullough

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

21.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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.

Robert Benchley

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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

31.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

32.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

34.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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.

John Ruskin

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

41.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

42.

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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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Drucker, Peter F.

49.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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