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

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Michelangelo

10.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

11.

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

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

13.

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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

15.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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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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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Bob Ross

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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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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

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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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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

31.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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.

Robert Benchley

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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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A man grows most tired while standing still.