Motivational Quotes

Work

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

- Grant, Ulysses S.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Holtz, Lou

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Hal Lancaster

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Keller, Helen

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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.

Robert Benchley

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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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

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

Keller, Helen

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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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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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.

Maurice, Priscilla

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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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

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

Dodge, B.

39.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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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

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Carty, Margaret

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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