Motivational Quotes

Work

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Work

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Angelou, Maya

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Fox, Jim

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Ogden Nash

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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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

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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

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

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Oakley, Ann

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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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Work is a four letter word!

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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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