Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Pickens, T. Boone

Best Quotes about Work

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

Ford, Henry

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

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

Richard Bach

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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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

13.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

14.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

15.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

16.

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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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

18.

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Keller, Helen

21.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

25.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

26.

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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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

28.

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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

30.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

31.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

32.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

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

34.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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.

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

42.

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

Don Marquis

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Frost, Robert

46.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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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

48.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.