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

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

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

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

15.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Carty, Margaret

25.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Hal Lancaster

28.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Jong, Erica

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Richard Bach

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

Pavlova, Anna

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

David Shore