Motivational Quotes

Work

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

- Javits, Marion

Best Quotes about Work

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

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Mitchell, Warren

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Marquis, Don

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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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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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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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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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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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil