Motivational Quotes

Work

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

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

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Twain, Mark

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.

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.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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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

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Voltaire

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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

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

Rutte, Martin

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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

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

33.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Twain, Mark

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough