Motivational Quotes

Work

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Work

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

Michelangelo

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Keller, Helen

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Riley, Pat

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

10.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

11.

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

12.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

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

Carty, Margaret

17.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

20.

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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

24.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

25.

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

Voltaire

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

29.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

30.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

31.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

32.

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

Lombardi, Vince

33.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

34.

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

35.

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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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

37.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

38.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

39.

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

40.

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

41.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

42.

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

43.

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

Mitchell, Warren

44.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

45.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

46.

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

Butterworth, Eric

49.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

50.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page