Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Elbert Hubbard

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

11.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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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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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 same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Halas, George

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Prince, Ray

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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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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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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Don Marquis

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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

30.

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

31.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

32.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

33.

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

34.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

39.

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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

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

Keller, Helen

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

Stengel, Casey