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

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

Bhagavad Gita

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Confucius

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

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

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

Marquis, Don

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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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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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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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Baldwin, James

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Billings, Josh

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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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

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.