Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Best Quotes about Work

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Henry David Thoreau

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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 effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

15.

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

Proverb

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Weil, Simone

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

Herbert, George

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

Parkinson's Law

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

26.

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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Blow, Susan

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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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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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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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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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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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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

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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 will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Marquis, Don

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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