Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Stengel, Casey

Best Quotes about Work

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Ruskin, John

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Weil, Simone

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

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

Keller, Helen

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

15.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

16.

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

17.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

18.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

Robert Benchley

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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.

21.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

22.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

23.

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

James M. Barrie

24.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

25.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

27.

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

28.

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

Anatole France

29.

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

Ogden Nash

30.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

31.

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

Garfield, James A.

32.

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

Confucius

33.

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

Jong, Erica

34.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

35.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

36.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

37.

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

LeMond, Greg

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

39.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

40.

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

41.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

43.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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