Motivational Quotes

Work

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Work

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

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

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

Jong, Erica

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

Mitchell, Warren

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Riley, Pat

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William