Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

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

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Atkinson, Brooks

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Keller, Helen

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

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Jong, Erica

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Riley, Pat

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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

23.

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 tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

32.

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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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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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 great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

Thomas A. Edison

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Halas, George

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

Devine, Dan

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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