Motivational Quotes

Work

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Work

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, American

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Drucker, Peter F.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

Keller, Helen

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

Thomas A. Edison

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

James M. Barrie

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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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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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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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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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Book, William Frederick

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Lombardi, Vince

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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.

John Ruskin

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.