Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Paterno, Joe

Best Quotes about Work

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Michelangelo

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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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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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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.

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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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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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Don Marquis

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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