Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Book, William Frederick

Best Quotes about Work

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Howard Newton

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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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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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Jones, Beverly

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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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 life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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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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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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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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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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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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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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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

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

Riley, Pat