Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Ogden Nash

Best Quotes about Work

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Rutte, Martin

11.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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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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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Halas, George

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

Ford, Henry

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

Richard Bach

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.