Motivational Quotes

Work

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

- Elbert Hubbard

Best Quotes about Work

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Riley, Pat

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

Bob Ross

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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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

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

David McCullough

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Escher, M. C.

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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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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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.