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

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Mitchell, Warren

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Peter Drucker

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

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Riley, Pat

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Thomas Carlyle

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Howard Newton

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Baldwin, James

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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.