Motivational Quotes

Work

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

- Miyazawa, Kiichi

Best Quotes about Work

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

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Garfield, James A.

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

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

Hepburn, Katharine

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

10.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

11.

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

Bob Ross

12.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

13.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

14.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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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 life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

17.

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

18.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

19.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

20.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

21.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Butterworth, Eric

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

30.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

31.

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

Halas, George

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

38.

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

Bhagavad Gita

39.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

40.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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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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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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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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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

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

Richard Bach

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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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