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

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Michelangelo

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

10.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

11.

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

12.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

15.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

18.

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

Sam Ewing

19.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

20.

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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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

25.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

26.

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

Frost, Robert

27.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

28.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

29.

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

Foster, Jodie

30.

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

Voltaire

31.

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

32.

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

33.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

34.

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

Ruskin, John

35.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

36.

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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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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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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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

40.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

41.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Robert Morley

43.

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

Mitchell, Warren

44.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

45.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.