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

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Hubbard, Elbert

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

Confucius

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

35.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Gorky, Maxim

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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

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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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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.