Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Robert Benchley

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Berra, Yogi

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

10.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

11.

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

12.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

14.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

16.

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

17.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

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

Ford, Henry

19.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

20.

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

21.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Weil, Simone

23.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

28.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

30.

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

31.

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

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

33.

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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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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

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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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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

40.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

42.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

44.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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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

49.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

50.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret