Motivational Quotes

Work

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

- Ray, John

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Robert Morley

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Jones, Beverly

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

David McCullough

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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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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Ford, Henry

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Dodge, B.

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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 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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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Keller, Helen

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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.

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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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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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