Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Miyazawa, Kiichi

Best Quotes about Work

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Parkinson's Law

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

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

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

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

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

10.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

12.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

13.

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

14.

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

Berra, Yogi

15.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

17.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

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

19.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

20.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

21.

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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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

23.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

24.

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.

25.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

26.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Richard Bach

30.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

31.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

32.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

33.

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

Foster, Jodie

34.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

35.

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

36.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

37.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

38.

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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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

44.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

45.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

46.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

47.

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

48.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

49.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank