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

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

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

Keller, Helen

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

Ford, Henry

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

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Marquis, Don

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

10.

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

Peter Drucker

11.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Ford, Henry

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Baldwin, James

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Gillis, Dobie

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Proverb

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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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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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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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