Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Henry J. Kaiser

Best Quotes about Work

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

Ford, Henry

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

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Bhagavad Gita

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Frost, Robert

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Book, William Frederick

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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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

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Michelangelo

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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Benchley, Robert

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Keller, Helen

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Herbert, George

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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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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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