Motivational Quotes

Work

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

- Mccarthy, Mary

Best Quotes about Work

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

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

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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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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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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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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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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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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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

Devine, Dan

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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

Don Marquis

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison