Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Devine, Dan

Work is a four letter word!

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

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

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.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

31.

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

Don Marquis

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

33.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Michelangelo

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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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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

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques