Motivational Quotes

Work

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Work

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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

Herold, Don

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

11.

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

12.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

13.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

14.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

16.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

17.

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

Thomas A. Edison

18.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

19.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

21.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

24.

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

25.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

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

Dodge, B.

28.

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

Halas, George

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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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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

31.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

42.

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

Jones, Beverly

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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

44.

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

45.

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

Gillis, Dobie

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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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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

49.

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

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

Don Marquis