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

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Stengel, Casey

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Lombardi, Vince

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Frost, Robert

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

Ford, Henry

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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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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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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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.

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert