Motivational Quotes

Work

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

- Gretzky, Wayne

Best Quotes about Work

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Sam Ewing

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Devine, Dan

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

12.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Parkinson's Law

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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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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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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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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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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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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Don Marquis

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

David McCullough

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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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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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman