Motivational Quotes

Work

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Barack Obama

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

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

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

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Twain, Mark

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Robert Morley

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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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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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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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bhagavad Gita

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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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 sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston