Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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.

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

Oakley, Ann

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Twain, Mark

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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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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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Angelou, Maya

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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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

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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

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Riley, Pat

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.