Motivational Quotes

Work

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Work

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gorky, Maxim

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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

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

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Mitchell, Warren

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy