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

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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.

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

Proverb, American

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

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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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

14.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

22.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Book, William Frederick

25.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

30.

Work is a four letter word!

31.

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.

32.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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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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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud