Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Work

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

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

Don Marquis

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

11.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

15.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

17.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

20.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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 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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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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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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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.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

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

Paterno, Joe

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace