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

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Ogden Nash

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

David McCullough

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

10.

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

11.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

12.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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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

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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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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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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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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

18.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

19.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

21.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

22.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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 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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

28.

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

Pavlova, Anna

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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

Book, William Frederick

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

40.

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

Bible

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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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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

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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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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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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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