Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Kemp, Jack

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Devine, Dan

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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

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

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Proverb, American

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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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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 has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

37.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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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

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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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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

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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