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

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Ford, Henry

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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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

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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Stengel, Casey

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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 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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Ogden Nash

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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn