Motivational Quotes

Work

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Robert Morley

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

12.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

13.

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

Parkinson's Law

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

16.

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

Twain, Mark

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

19.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

20.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

21.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

22.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

25.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

26.

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.

27.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

28.

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

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

30.

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.

John Ruskin

31.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

32.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

33.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

34.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

35.

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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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

41.

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

42.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

43.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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

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

Michelangelo

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Kipling, Rudyard

50.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William