Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

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

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Sam Ewing

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

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

Allen, James

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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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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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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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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.

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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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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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Lennon, John

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

Mitchell, Warren

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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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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

47.

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

48.

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

Bob Ross

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry