Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Work

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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 with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Austen, Jane

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

Confucius

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Huxley, Aldous

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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 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 your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Ruskin, John

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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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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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

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Proverb

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.