Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Robert Morley

Best Quotes about Work

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

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

11.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Jong, Erica

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

Devine, Dan

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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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

21.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

28.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

30.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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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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

33.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Michelangelo

35.

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

Riley, Pat

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Parkinson's Law

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Allen, James