Motivational Quotes

Work

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Work

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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

11.

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

Robert Morley

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

Voltaire

13.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

14.

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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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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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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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

29.

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

Devine, Dan

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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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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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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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

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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