Motivational Quotes

Work

...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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Ford, Henry

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Herbert, George

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

Gretzky, Wayne

10.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

11.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

13.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

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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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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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 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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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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

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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

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Robert Benchley

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas