Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Thomas Carlyle

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

10.

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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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

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

Butterworth, Eric

13.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

Marquis, Don

15.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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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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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

21.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

22.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

24.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Bhagavad Gita

31.

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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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

37.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Kemp, Jack

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

43.

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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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

James M. Barrie

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

48.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

49.

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

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

Halas, George