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

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Baldwin, James

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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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 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

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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

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

Foster, Jodie

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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

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

Richard Bach

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb