Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ashford, Evelyn

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Romer, Frank

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

Jones, Beverly

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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

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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

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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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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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

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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

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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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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb

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

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

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