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

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

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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

Riley, Pat

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kipling, Rudyard

10.

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 greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Riley, Pat

18.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

24.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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

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Work is a four letter word!

33.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

34.

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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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Anatole France

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

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

Holtz, Lou

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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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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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

Don Marquis