Motivational Quotes

Work

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Work

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

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

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

Jong, Erica

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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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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Ogden Nash

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Oakley, Ann

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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Work is a four letter word!

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Riley, Pat

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine