Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Work

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

10.

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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

13.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

14.

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

15.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

16.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

18.

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

19.

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

Butler, Samuel

20.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

21.

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

Marquis, Don

22.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

25.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Thomas A. Edison

30.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

31.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

32.

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

33.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

35.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Keller, Helen

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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.

40.

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

41.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

42.

Work is a four letter word!

43.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

44.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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.

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

48.

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

David Shore

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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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster