Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Mitchell, Warren

Best Quotes about Work

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Lombardi, Vince

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

11.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Picasso, Pablo

32.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Proverb

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

48.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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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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