Motivational Quotes

Work

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

- Maxine Hong Kingston

Best Quotes about Work

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

Gretzky, Wayne

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Bhagavad Gita

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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

11.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

12.

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

Huxley, Aldous

13.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

17.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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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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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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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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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

Barack Obama

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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.

26.

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

27.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

28.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

29.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Marquis, Don

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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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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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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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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

Devine, Dan

44.

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

45.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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 your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.