Motivational Quotes

Work

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

- Calloway, Wayne

Best Quotes about Work

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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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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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Proverb

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Carty, Margaret

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

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Don Marquis

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

Paterno, Joe

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey