Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Robert Morley

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Work is a four letter word!

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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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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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Devine, Dan

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Sand, George

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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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 do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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.

John Ruskin

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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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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Weil, Simone

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

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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 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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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish