Motivational Quotes

Work

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Work

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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

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

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

Don Marquis

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

10.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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

LeMond, Greg

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

Richard Bach

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

18.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

25.

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

Parkinson's Law

26.

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

27.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

28.

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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

Angelou, Maya

31.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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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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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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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Mitchell, Warren

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Work is a four letter word!

43.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark