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

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

Elbert Hubbard

Work is a four letter word!

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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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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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

Twain, Mark

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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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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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 honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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