Motivational Quotes

Work

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Book, William Frederick

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

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.

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

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

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

Stengel, Casey

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

Paterno, Joe

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Carty, Margaret

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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

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

Ford, Henry

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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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

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Don Marquis

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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

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

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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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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.