Motivational Quotes

Work

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

- Wran, Neville Kenneth

Best Quotes about Work

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Keller, Helen

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

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

Slick, Grace

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

10.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

Paterno, Joe

12.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

14.

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

Barzan, Gerald

15.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

16.

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

Pavlova, Anna

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

18.

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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Thomas Carlyle

21.

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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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

23.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

25.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

29.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

31.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

Parkinson's Law

33.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

34.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

35.

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

Escher, M. C.

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

38.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

40.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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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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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

45.

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

48.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren