Motivational Quotes

Work

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

- Calloway, Wayne

Best Quotes about Work

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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

Thomas Carlyle

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.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

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

Proverb, American

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Baldwin, James

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ogden Nash

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Angelou, Maya

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Twain, Mark

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lombardi, Vince

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Mansfield, Katherine