Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Romer, Frank

Best Quotes about Work

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Bible

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

Lombardi, Vince

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

10.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

11.

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

12.

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

Henry David Thoreau

13.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

14.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

15.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

16.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

17.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

18.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

19.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

20.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

21.

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

Carty, Margaret

22.

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

Hal Lancaster

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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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

25.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

26.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

27.

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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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 he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

30.

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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

32.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Riley, Pat

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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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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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh