Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Ogden Nash

Best Quotes about Work

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Blow, Susan

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Bible

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Michelangelo

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

Rutte, Martin

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Mcgoorty, Danny