Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Mitchell, Warren

Best Quotes about Work

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

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.

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

10.

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

Michelangelo

11.

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

Anatole France

12.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

13.

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

Twain, Mark

14.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

15.

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

Ogden Nash

16.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

19.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

20.

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

Allen, James

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

23.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

24.

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.

25.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

26.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

27.

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

Ford, Henry

28.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

30.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

LeMond, Greg

32.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

33.

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

34.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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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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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

37.

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

Dodge, B.

38.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

39.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Lombardi, Vince

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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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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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey