Motivational Quotes

Work

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Best Quotes about Work

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

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

Work is a four letter word!

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Maurois, Andre

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Jong, Erica

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Keller, Helen

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

Bible

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Riley, Pat

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Book, William Frederick

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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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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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Ogden Nash

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Herbert, George

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

Allen, James

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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