Motivational Quotes

Work

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

- Grant, Ulysses S.

Best Quotes about Work

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

18.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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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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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall