Motivational Quotes

Work

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

- Wilfred A. Peterson

Best Quotes about Work

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Michelangelo

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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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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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Thomas A. Edison

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

30.

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

Marquis, Don

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Robert Morley

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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry