Motivational Quotes

Work

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

- Monson, Thomas S.

Best Quotes about Work

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Devine, Dan

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

10.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

11.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

12.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Maurois, Andre

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

15.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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

20.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

21.

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

Huxley, Aldous

22.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

24.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

31.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

32.

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

Wilde, Oscar

33.

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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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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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

38.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

40.

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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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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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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett