Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Work

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Riley, Pat

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

12.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, French

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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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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Jong, Erica

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.