Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

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

Stengel, Casey

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

Fox, Jim

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Voltaire

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

10.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

11.

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

Riley, Pat

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

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

Twain, Mark

14.

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

15.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

16.

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

Thomas A. Edison

17.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

18.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

19.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

20.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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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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

23.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

Blow, Susan

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

Picasso, Pablo

27.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

28.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

29.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

30.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

31.

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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen 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

34.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

35.

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

Twain, Mark

36.

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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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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.

42.

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

Paterno, Joe

43.

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

Angelou, Maya

44.

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

Michelangelo

45.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

48.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

49.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John