Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Escher, M. C.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

Parkinson's Law

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Ruskin, John

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Peter Drucker

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

Jong, Erica

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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