Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Ogden Nash

Best Quotes about Work

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

Twain, Mark

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

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Shakarian, David

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

10.

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

Kemp, Jack

11.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

12.

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

Don Marquis

13.

Work is a four letter word!

14.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Escher, M. C.

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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.

32.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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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.

John Ruskin

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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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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

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Carty, Margaret

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques