Motivational Quotes

Work

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

- Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Best Quotes about Work

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Don Marquis

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

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

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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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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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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

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

Voltaire

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

20.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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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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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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 love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat