Motivational Quotes

Work

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Work

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

Twain, Mark

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Bob Ross

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

23.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

27.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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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 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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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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

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas