Motivational Quotes

Work

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

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

Robert Morley

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Maurois, Andre

10.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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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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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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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

17.

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

Carty, Margaret

18.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

19.

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

Huxley, Aldous

20.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.

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

22.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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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.

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

27.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

30.

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

Hill, Napoleon

31.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

32.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

33.

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

Holtz, Lou

34.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

Jong, Erica

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

40.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

42.

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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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

44.

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

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Keller, Helen

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.