Motivational Quotes

Work

We work to become, not to acquire.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Work

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

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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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 learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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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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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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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

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

Voltaire

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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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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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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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

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

Huxley, Aldous