Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Work

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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

Jones, Beverly

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

10.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

11.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

12.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

13.

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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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Hill, Napoleon

19.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

20.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

23.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

25.

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

Maurois, Andre

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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

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

28.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

31.

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

Ogden Nash

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Twain, Mark

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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 make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

41.

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

42.

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 man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

48.

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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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe