Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Carty, Margaret

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Twain, Mark

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

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

Marquis, Don

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

Peter Drucker

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Holtz, Lou

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom