Motivational Quotes

Work

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Work

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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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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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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

Jong, Erica

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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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.

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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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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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Voltaire

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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 don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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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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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

Sand, George