Motivational Quotes

Work

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Work

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Carty, Margaret

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Stengel, Casey

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Rivers, Joan

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

Jong, Erica

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

11.

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.

12.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

13.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

14.

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

15.

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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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

26.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

27.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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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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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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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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 work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

38.

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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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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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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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

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

43.

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

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

46.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret