Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Allen, James

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

Keller, Helen

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Frost, Robert

10.

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

11.

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

Blow, Susan

12.

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

Halas, George

13.

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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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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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.

Shaw, George Bernard

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

18.

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

19.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

20.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

21.

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

Mitchell, Warren

22.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

23.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

24.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

25.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

26.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

29.

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

30.

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

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

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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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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.

34.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

35.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

42.

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

Baldwin, James

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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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

45.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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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

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

48.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

49.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

50.

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

Riley, Pat