Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Work

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

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

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Marquis, Don

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

10.

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

Prince, Ray

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Michelangelo

18.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, American

34.

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

Carty, Margaret

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

36.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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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.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas