Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Fromme, Dr. Allan

Best Quotes about Work

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Barack Obama

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

11.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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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

18.

Work is a four letter word!

19.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Halas, George

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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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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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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

36.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

41.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

42.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

44.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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