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

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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.

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

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

Peter Drucker

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

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

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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

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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Michelangelo

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

LeMond, Greg

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

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

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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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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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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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

David Shore

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

James M. Barrie

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan