Motivational Quotes

Work

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Work

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

Syrus, Publilius

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Peter Drucker

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

Sand, George

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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

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

Ford, Henry

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Robert Benchley

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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 alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Riley, Pat

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

Bob Ross

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Billings, Josh

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Rohn, Jim