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

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Richard Bach

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

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

22.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

23.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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

33.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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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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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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Proverb, French

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

David McCullough

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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