Motivational Quotes

Work

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Work

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Escher, M. C.

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.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

Coolidge, Calvin

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Confucius

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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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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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Book, William Frederick

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

David McCullough

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Bob Ross

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Keller, Helen

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Prince, Ray

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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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 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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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.