Motivational Quotes

Work

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Work

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

Hepburn, Katharine

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

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

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.

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

Riley, Pat

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Riley, Pat

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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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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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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

Ogden Nash

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert