Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Work

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

Riley, Pat

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

Keller, Helen

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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.

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

Twain, Mark

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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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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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

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow