Motivational Quotes

Work

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

- O'Casey, Sean

Best Quotes about Work

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

Riley, Pat

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

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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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.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Rutte, Martin

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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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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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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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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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Oakley, Ann

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle