Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Work

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Riley, Pat

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.

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

Fox, Jim

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

12.

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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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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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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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Mansfield, Katherine

17.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

18.

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

Thomas Carlyle

19.

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.

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

21.

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

22.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Twain, Mark

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

Keller, Helen

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

29.

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

Hal Lancaster

30.

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

31.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

32.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

34.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

35.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

36.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

37.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

38.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

39.

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

40.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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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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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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

44.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Work is more fun than fun.