Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Peter Drucker

Best Quotes about Work

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lennon, John

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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.

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Book, William Frederick

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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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

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Oakley, Ann

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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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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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

Baldwin, James

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Keller, Helen

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna