Motivational Quotes

Work

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Work

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

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Lombardi, Vince

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

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

Howard Newton

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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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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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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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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

20.

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.

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry 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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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

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

Rutte, Martin

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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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Fox, Jim

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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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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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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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Kemp, Jack

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Riley, Pat

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

Hill, Napoleon