Motivational Quotes

Work

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Work

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Lombardi, Vince

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Allen, James

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

11.

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

12.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

13.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

14.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

15.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

16.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

17.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

18.

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

19.

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

Lowell, James Russell

20.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

21.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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

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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

24.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

25.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

26.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

27.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

28.

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

29.

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

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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

31.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

32.

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

33.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

34.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

35.

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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

38.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

40.

Work is a four letter word!

41.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

44.

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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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.

46.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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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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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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl