Motivational Quotes

Work

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

- Rollwagen, John

Best Quotes about 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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Ogden Nash

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

David McCullough

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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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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Dodge, B.

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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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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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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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 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

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Rutte, Martin

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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