Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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

Gorky, Maxim

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

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

Don Marquis

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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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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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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

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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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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Marquis, Don

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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

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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

Frost, Robert

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David