Motivational Quotes

Work

Men have become the tools of their trade.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Work

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

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

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Thomas A. Edison

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

Maurois, Andre

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Paterno, Joe

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Twain, Mark

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Stengel, Casey

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

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Ogden Nash

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

Halas, George