Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Sand, George

Best Quotes about Work

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

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

Thomas Carlyle

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

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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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

11.

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

Escher, M. C.

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Ogden Nash

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

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Work is a four letter word!

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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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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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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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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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Bible

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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.

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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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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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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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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.

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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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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

49.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Voltaire