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

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Billings, Josh

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

11.

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

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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Twain, Mark

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

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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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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 is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

42.

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Wilfred A. Peterson