Motivational Quotes

Work

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

- Vaneigem, Raoul

Best Quotes about Work

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Riley, Pat

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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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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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 suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Holtz, Lou

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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

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

Jong, Erica

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Mitchell, Warren

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Keller, Helen

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Butler, Samuel

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone