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

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Slick, Grace

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

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

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

Howard Newton

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Mitchell, Warren

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Twain, Mark

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

23.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

25.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

31.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

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.

38.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

39.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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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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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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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Robert Morley

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

Twain, Mark

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.