Motivational Quotes

Work

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

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

Johnson, James Weldon

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

18.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

27.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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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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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Escher, M. C.

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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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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

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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