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

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Weil, Simone

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

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

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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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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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

David McCullough

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Work is a four letter word!

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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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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Twain, Mark

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Herbert, George

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

Marquis, Don

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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