Motivational Quotes

Work

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Work

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

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

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

Work is a four letter word!

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

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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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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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 is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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.

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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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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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine