Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

10.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Thomas A. Edison

13.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

14.

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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

17.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Holtz, Lou

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

25.

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Voltaire

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Book, William Frederick

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

46.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Work is a four letter word!