Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Parkinson, Joseph

Best Quotes about Work

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

Ford, Henry

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

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

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

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Barack Obama

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Allen, James

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

Blow, Susan

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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.

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

Proverb

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Devine, Dan

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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.

John Ruskin

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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Rivers, Joan

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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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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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Oakley, Ann

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Lombardi, Vince

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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