Motivational Quotes

Work

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Work

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

Robert Morley

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

Riley, Pat

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Voltaire

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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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Bible

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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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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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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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

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Riley, Pat

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

Ogden Nash

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

Twain, Mark

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

Butler, Samuel

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Lombardi, Vince

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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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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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

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

Proverb, French

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert