Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Ogden Nash

Best Quotes about Work

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

Romer, Frank

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

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

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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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

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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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

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Blow, Susan

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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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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Voltaire

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

David McCullough

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

Butler, Samuel

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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

David Shore

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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