Motivational Quotes

Work

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Work

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

Keller, Helen

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Peter Drucker

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

10.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

11.

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

Bible

12.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Mitchell, Warren

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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

19.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

20.

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

21.

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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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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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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

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Riley, Pat

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

35.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

LeMond, Greg

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Billings, Josh

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

Ogden Nash

49.

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

Twain, Mark

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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