Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Wran, Neville Kenneth

Best Quotes about Work

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Bible

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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

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

Marquis, Don

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Proverb

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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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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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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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle