Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Ogden Nash

Best Quotes about Work

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Bible

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Blow, Susan

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Halas, George

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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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Work is a four letter word!

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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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

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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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.