Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Work

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

10.

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

11.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

12.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

13.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

14.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

15.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

16.

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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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

18.

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

19.

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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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

22.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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

24.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

28.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

29.

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

Rivers, Joan

30.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

31.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

32.

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

33.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

34.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

35.

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

Lennon, John

36.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

37.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

38.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

39.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

40.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

41.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

42.

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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

44.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

45.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

47.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

50.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page