Motivational Quotes

Work

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

- Ogilvy, David

Best Quotes about Work

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

10.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

11.

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

12.

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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

17.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

18.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

19.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

20.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

21.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

25.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

27.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

28.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

29.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

30.

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

Hill, Napoleon

31.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

34.

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

Weil, Simone

35.

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

Book, William Frederick

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

37.

Work is a four letter word!

38.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

39.

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

Butler, Samuel

40.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

42.

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

43.

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

Lombardi, Vince

44.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

49.

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

50.

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