Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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.

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

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

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Proverb

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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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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Work is a four letter word!

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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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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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

25.

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

Voltaire

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

Lowell, James Russell

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

34.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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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 grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Jong, Erica

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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.

John Ruskin

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Herbert, George

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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

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt