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

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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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

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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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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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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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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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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

Jones, Beverly

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Marquis, Don

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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.

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Garfield, James A.

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Herbert, George

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar