Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Work

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

Henry David Thoreau

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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

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

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Work is a four letter word!

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Rohn, Jim

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Parkinson's Law

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

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