Motivational Quotes

Work

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

- Benchley, Robert

Best Quotes about Work

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Riley, Pat

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Keller, Helen

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

10.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

11.

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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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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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

15.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

17.

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

18.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

19.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

20.

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

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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

22.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

23.

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

Reagan, Ronald

24.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

25.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

26.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

27.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

28.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

31.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

34.

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

Lombardi, Vince

35.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

36.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

37.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

38.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

39.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

40.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

41.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

42.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

43.

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.

44.

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

Mitchell, Warren

45.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou