Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Riley, Pat

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

Huxley, Aldous

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Jong, Erica

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Thomas Carlyle

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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