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

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Don Marquis

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

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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

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

Maurois, Andre

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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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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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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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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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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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Voltaire

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

34.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Michelangelo

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lennon, John

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