Motivational Quotes

Work

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

- Rutte, Martin

Best Quotes about Work

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

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

Herbert, George

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

Butler, Samuel

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

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

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Twain, Mark

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

19.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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

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

Robert Morley

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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

Keller, Helen

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

James M. Barrie

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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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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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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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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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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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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

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

Voltaire

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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

David McCullough

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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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.

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie