Motivational Quotes

Work

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

- Mortimer, John

Best Quotes about Work

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

10.

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

Riley, Pat

11.

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

12.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

13.

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.

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

18.

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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Devine, Dan

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

Butler, Samuel

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

25.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Benchley, Robert

27.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

34.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

35.

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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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

39.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

Peter Drucker

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

45.

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 man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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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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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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