Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Weil, Simone

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

Mccarthy, Mary

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Bob Ross

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Marquis, Don

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

Don Marquis

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Escher, M. C.

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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

Voltaire

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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.

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Butterworth, Eric

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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