Motivational Quotes

Work

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Garfield, James A.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Don Marquis

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Austen, Jane

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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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Work is a four letter word!

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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

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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

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

Riley, Pat

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Twain, Mark

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther