Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Best Quotes about Work

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Oprah Winfrey

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

11.

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

12.

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

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

Twain, Mark

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Rutte, Martin

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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.

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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

40.

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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 worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John