Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Lombardi, Vince

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

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

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

Rutte, Martin

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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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

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Dodge, B.

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

Bible

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Richard Bach

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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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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

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Carty, Margaret

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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Morris, William

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

Riley, Pat

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

Sand, George

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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How do I work? I grope.