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

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

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

Stengel, Casey

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

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

Anatole France

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

James M. Barrie

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

Book, William Frederick

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Keller, Helen

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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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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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

David McCullough

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty