Motivational Quotes

Work

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Work

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

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Benchley, Robert

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Ruskin, John

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

18.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

21.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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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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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Ogden Nash

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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.

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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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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Baldwin, James

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Huxley, Aldous

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.