Motivational Quotes

Work

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Parkinson, Joseph

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

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

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

Howard Newton

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Carty, Margaret

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

20.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

21.

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

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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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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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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

33.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

39.

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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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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

43.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

44.

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

Kemp, Jack

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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