Motivational Quotes

Work

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

- Mortimer, John

Best Quotes about Work

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Halas, George

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Ford, Henry

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

Maurois, Andre

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

13.

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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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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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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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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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

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Riley, Pat

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

33.

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

Bob Ross

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

37.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

38.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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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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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

43.

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

Proverb

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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

45.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Carty, Margaret

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

48.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry