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

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Gretzky, Wayne

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Parkinson, Joseph

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Bhagavad Gita

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.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

10.

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

Picasso, Pablo

11.

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

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

Book, William Frederick

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

22.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

David Shore

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Butler, Samuel

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Parkinson's Law

32.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Marx, Karl

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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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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

44.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

45.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Austen, Jane

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert