Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bible

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Baldwin, James

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

Parkinson's Law

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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

11.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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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

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Butler, Samuel

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Austen, Jane

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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

Gorky, Maxim

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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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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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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Ford, Henry

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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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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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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

38.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

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

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.