Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Work

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

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

Michelangelo

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, French

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Stengel, Casey

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

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

Confucius

10.

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

Herbert, George

11.

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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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

17.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

Voltaire

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

James M. Barrie

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Foster, Jodie

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Kemp, Jack

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Riley, Pat

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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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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing