Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Work

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Riley, Pat

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

10.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

11.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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

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

Bob Ross

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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

22.

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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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

25.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Parkinson's Law

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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

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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

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

Riley, Pat

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

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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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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Mitchell, Warren

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lowell, James Russell

46.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald