Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Ogden Nash

Best Quotes about Work

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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.

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

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Michelangelo

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Riley, Pat

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

David Shore

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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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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

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

James M. Barrie

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous