Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Work

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

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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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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

14.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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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

18.

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

Elbert Hubbard

19.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

20.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

Book, William Frederick

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

28.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

31.

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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Drucker, Peter F.

34.

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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Hill, Napoleon

37.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

38.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

39.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

40.

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

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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

42.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Henry David Thoreau

44.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

45.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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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

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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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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.