Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Vaneigem, Raoul

Best Quotes about Work

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

Work is a four letter word!

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

Oakley, Ann

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Book, William Frederick

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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 person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Proverb, French

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hill, Napoleon

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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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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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Ford, Henry

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

David Shore

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

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

Escher, M. C.

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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 the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

Devine, Dan

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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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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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Herbert, George

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

Ruskin, John

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.