Motivational Quotes

Work

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

- Leon, Sy

Best Quotes about Work

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

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Johnson, James Weldon

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Proverb, French

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Romer, Frank

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

Paterno, Joe

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle