Motivational Quotes

Work

Better to burn out than rust out.

- Young, Neil

Best Quotes about Work

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

Ford, Henry

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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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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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

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

Riley, Pat

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

Angelou, Maya

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Dodge, B.

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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.