Motivational Quotes

Work

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Work

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

Theodore Roosevelt

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Diller, Phyllis

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Carty, Margaret

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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.

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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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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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Peter Drucker

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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

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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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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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.