Motivational Quotes

Work

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Work

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Don Marquis

11.

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

Billings, Josh

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ford, Henry

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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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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

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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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

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

Rutte, Martin

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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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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.