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

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

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

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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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

Devine, Dan

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

David McCullough

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

21.

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

22.

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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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Herbert, George

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.