Motivational Quotes

Work

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

- Maxine Hong Kingston

Best Quotes about Work

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

Mitchell, Warren

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Twain, Mark

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

10.

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

Berra, Yogi

11.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

12.

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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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

14.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

15.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

16.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

17.

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

18.

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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

20.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Voltaire

23.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

24.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

25.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

26.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

27.

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

Ogden Nash

28.

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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

30.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

32.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

34.

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

36.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

38.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

39.

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

Keller, Helen

40.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

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

Proverb

44.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

45.

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

Parkinson's Law

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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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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Frost, Robert

49.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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