Motivational Quotes

Work

Better to burn out than rust out.

- Young, Neil

Best Quotes about Work

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

Maurois, Andre

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

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Lombardi, Vince

10.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

11.

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

Holtz, Lou

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

28.

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

Don Marquis

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Book, William Frederick

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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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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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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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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