Motivational Quotes

Work

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

- Warhol, Andy

Best Quotes about Work

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Barack Obama

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

Ruskin, John

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Jones, Beverly

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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

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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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

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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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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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

Gillis, Dobie

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Mcgoorty, Danny