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

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Theodore Roosevelt

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

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

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

Riley, Pat

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

11.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

Peter Drucker

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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

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

Voltaire

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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

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

Barack Obama

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

Gillis, Dobie

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

Carty, Margaret

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

Ogden Nash

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

Keller, Helen

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Hal Lancaster

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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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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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

43.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Bible

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.