Motivational Quotes

Work

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

- Chaucer, Geoffrey

Best Quotes about Work

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ogden Nash

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

24.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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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

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

David McCullough

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Foster, Jodie

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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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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

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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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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.