Motivational Quotes

Work

How do I work? I grope.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Work

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Sand, George

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

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.

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

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Escher, M. C.

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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

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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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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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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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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

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ogden Nash

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

Carty, Margaret

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

34.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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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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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Marquis, Don

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Diller, Phyllis