Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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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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

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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

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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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Ogden Nash

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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

Twain, Mark