Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Book, William Frederick

Best Quotes about Work

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Hal Lancaster

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Thomas A. Edison

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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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

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Bible

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

31.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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

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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

40.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Butterworth, Eric