Motivational Quotes

Work

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Best Quotes about Work

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Ruskin, John

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

10.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

11.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

12.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Hill, Napoleon

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

21.

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

Rutte, Martin

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

23.

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Sand, George

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

27.

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

28.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

30.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

32.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

33.

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

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Maurois, Andre

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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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

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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

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will