Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Work

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

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

Bible

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

Gillis, Dobie

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Barack Obama

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Voltaire

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

19.

Work is a four letter word!

20.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

28.

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

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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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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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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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

35.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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

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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 suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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.