Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Twain, Mark

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Huxley, Aldous

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

Book, William Frederick

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Marquis, Don

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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

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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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

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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