Motivational Quotes

Work

Plaster thick, some will stick.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Stengel, Casey

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

10.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Keller, Helen

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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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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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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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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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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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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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Proverb, French

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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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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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks