Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Weil, Simone

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Hill, Napoleon

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Rutte, Martin

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Herold, Don

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Ogden Nash

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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

43.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Peter Drucker

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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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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

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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