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

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

Voltaire

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Jones, Beverly

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

10.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

11.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

13.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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

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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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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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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

19.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

20.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Mitchell, Warren

25.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

26.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

27.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

28.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

29.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

30.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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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

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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

37.

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 joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Huxley, Aldous

47.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.