Motivational Quotes

Work

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Work

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Hepburn, Katharine

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

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

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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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

11.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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 highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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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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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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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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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Twain, Mark

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

Weil, Simone

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Paterno, Joe

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Keller, Helen

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.