Motivational Quotes

Work

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Work

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

19.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Jong, Erica

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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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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

31.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 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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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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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

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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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

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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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Book, William Frederick

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Work is a four letter word!

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone