Motivational Quotes

Work

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Work

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.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

David Shore

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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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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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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Sam Ewing

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash