Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Henry David Thoreau

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

10.

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

Stengel, Casey

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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

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

Keller, Helen

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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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.

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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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

25.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

28.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

30.

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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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

32.

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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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Proverb, American

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Prince, Ray

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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

46.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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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

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell