Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Escher, M. C.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

Orwell, George

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

11.

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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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Gillis, Dobie

18.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

19.

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

Book, William Frederick

20.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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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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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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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

29.

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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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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.

Robert Benchley

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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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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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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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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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Ogden Nash

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Book, William Frederick

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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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