Motivational Quotes

Work

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Work

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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 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

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

Ford, Henry

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Gorky, Maxim

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Paterno, Joe

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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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

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.