Motivational Quotes

Work

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

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

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Riley, Pat

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

14.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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

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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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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

27.

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

28.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

35.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy