Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Fox, Jim

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

Work is a four letter word!

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

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 am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Wilde, Oscar

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Thomas Carlyle

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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 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.

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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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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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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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Rutte, Martin

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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.