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

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

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Don Marquis

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Bob Ross

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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

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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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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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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Blow, Susan

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Proverb, French

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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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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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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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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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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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 not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Austen, Jane

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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.

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.