Motivational Quotes

Work

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Work

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Austen, Jane

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Lennon, John

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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Twain, Mark

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Book, William Frederick

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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

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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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

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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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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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Carty, Margaret

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl