Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Work

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

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Ogden Nash

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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.

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

Rohn, Jim

10.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

13.

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

Bhagavad Gita

14.

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

Keller, Helen

15.

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

Keller, Helen

17.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

18.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

19.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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.

26.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

27.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

28.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

30.

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.

John Ruskin

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

Book, William Frederick

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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.

33.

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.

34.

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

Twain, Mark

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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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

37.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

38.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

39.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

41.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

42.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Robert Benchley

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

Proverb, French

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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