Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Don Marquis

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Dodge, B.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

10.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

11.

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

Ogden Nash

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Butterworth, Eric

15.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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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

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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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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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

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Gorky, Maxim

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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

Richard Bach

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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Work is a four letter word!

40.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

41.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

44.

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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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

46.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bhagavad Gita

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim