Motivational Quotes

Work

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Reagan, Ronald

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Picasso, Pablo

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Riley, Pat

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Sam Ewing

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

19.

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

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

27.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Ogden Nash

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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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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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.

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

Riley, Pat

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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 make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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 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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor