Motivational Quotes

Work

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Work

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

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

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Slick, Grace

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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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

19.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lombardi, Vince

24.

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

25.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Carty, Margaret

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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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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Jones, Beverly

36.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

43.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Proverb