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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON WORK 5
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice, to employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protectior against unemployment.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945, American President (32nd))
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, American President (26th))
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, American President (26th))
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.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, American President (26th))
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778, Swiss political philosopher, educationist, essayist)
I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.
Helena Rubinstein (1870-1965, Polish-born American cosmetics manufacturer)
Get the job done.
Don Shula (1930-, American football coach)
One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.
Don Shula (1930-, American football coach)
Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.
Dagobert D. Runes (1902-1982, American philosophical writer)
The best work never was and never will be done for money.
John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)
One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)
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.
Babe Ruth (1895-1948, American baseball player)
You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.
Martin Rutte
Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little ... oh, I admit only a very little ... of what life is about.
Francoise Sagan (1935-, French novelist, playwright)
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
Dr. Jonas Salk (1914-1995, American virologist who discovered the first vaccine against poliomyelitis)
Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.
George Sand (1804-1876, French novelist)
Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world.
Col. Harland Sanders (1890-1980, American businessman, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken)
Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
David Sarnoff (1891-1971, Belarus-born American entrepreneur)
Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
May Sarton (1912-1995, American poet, novelist)
Every woman is a human being-one cannot repeat that too often-and a human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957, British author)
What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957, British author)
When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.
Bo Schembechler (1929-, American college football coach)
The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
Charles M. Schwab (1862-1939, American industrialist, businessman)
Work hard. Hard work is the best investment a man can make.
Charles M. Schwab (1862-1939, American industrialist, businessman)
Most leaders are indispensable, but to produce a major social change, many ordinary people must also be involved.
Anne Firor Scott
I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.
David Shakarian (American businessman, founder of General Nutrition)
Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.
Anna Howard Shaw
Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
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.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
The strength of the drive determines the force required to suppress it.
Mary Jane Sherfey
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills (1929-, American opera singer)
When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.
Gary Sinise (1955-, American actor, director, producer, stage director)
No matter how big, soft or warm your beds is, you still have to get out of it.
Grace Slick
Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
Dr. Walter Smith
Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845, British writer, clergyman)
Without labor nothing prospers.
Sophocles (495-406 BC, Greek tragic poet)
One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946, American author)
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
Han Suyin
I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.
Margaret Thatcher (1925-, British Prime Minister (1979-90))
Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910, Russian novelist, philosopher)
Want is the mother of industry.
Author Unknown
It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part
Casey Stengel (1889-1975, American baseball player and manager)
For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.
Edith Mendel Stern
Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else.
Meryl Streep (1949-, American actress)
The work will stand, no matter what.
Meryl Streep (1949-, American actress)
Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.
Meridel Le Sueur
There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything.
Arthur Symons
At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.
Publilius Syrus (85 BC- 43BC, Roman writer)
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.
Thomas Szasz (1920-, American psychiatrist)
No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.
The Talmud (BC 500?-400? AD, Jewish archive of oral tradition)
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.
Deborah Tannen
Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.
Josephine Tessier
Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.
Margaret Thatcher (1925-, British Prime Minister (1979-90))
Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night cometh when no man can work.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
The desire of the lazy kill him; for his hands refuse to labor.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Proverbs 21:25
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.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Ecclesiastes 9:10
Men have become the tools of their trade.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
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.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Brian Tracy (1944-, Canadian-born American trainer, speaker, author, businessman) Author's website: www.briantracy.com
I do not like work, even when someone else does it.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
Intellectual "work" is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
I like to deliver more than I promise instead of the other way around.
Dorothy Uhnak
A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.
Author Unknown
A family that plays together, stays together.
Author Unknown
A job worth doing is worth doing together.
Author Unknown
A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.
Author Unknown
A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.
Author Unknown
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.
Author Unknown
Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.
Author Unknown
Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.
Author Unknown
Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.
Author Unknown
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.
Author Unknown
Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough.
Author Unknown
Hope doesn't guarantee anything; hard work does.
Author Unknown
How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?
Author Unknown
How well you like hard work often depends on whether you are doing it or paying for it.
Author Unknown
I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.
Author Unknown
If you continue to work hard, success will follow you.
Author Unknown
If you have talent and you work long and hard at it, anything in the world can be yours.
Author Unknown
In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.
Author Unknown
Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.
Author Unknown
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
Author Unknown
Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.
Author Unknown
Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work
Author Unknown
Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work.
Author Unknown
Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.
Author Unknown
No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
Author Unknown
Plaster thick, some will stick.
Author Unknown
Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.
Author Unknown
TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.
Author Unknown
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Author Unknown
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Author Unknown
The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Author Unknown
That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.
Neville Kenneth Wran
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.
Author Unknown
There is no excellence without labor in the furnace. God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.
Author Unknown
When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.
Author Unknown
White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close
Author Unknown
White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close
Author Unknown
Work is a four letter word!
Author Unknown
Work keeps at bay, three great evils -- boredom, vice and need.
Author Unknown
Work your way up or rust your way out.
Author Unknown
Work! Thank God for the swing of it, for the clamoring, hammering, ring of it.
Author Unknown
You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.
Author Unknown
A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
Paul Valery (1871-1945, French poet, essayist)
I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
Gloria Vanderbilt
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
Raoul Vaneigem (1934-, Belgian situationist philosopher)
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.
Raoul Vaneigem (1934-, Belgian situationist philosopher)
Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.
Marquis De Vauvenargues (1715-1747, French moralist)
Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
Work is often the father of pleasure.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
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.
Denis Waitley (1933-, American author, speaker, trainer, peak performance expert) Author's website: www.deniswaitley.com
A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
Barbara Walters (1931-, American TV personality)
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.
Daniel Yankelovitch
We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us -- because they are.
Sam Walton (1918-1992, American businessman, founder of Wal-mart)
I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
Andy Warhol (1930-, American artist, filmmaker)
In proportion as one loses himself in [a great cause]...in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915, American black leader and educator)
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
Simone Weil (1910-1943, French philosopher, mystic)
Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.
Simone Weil (1910-1943, French philosopher, mystic)
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.
Katharine Whitehorn (1926-, British journalist)
When you are not passionate about your work, chances are you're not as turned on about life as possible. People who know their purpose, tend to have more energy, enthusiasm and joy at work and at home. You can identify your purpose, by exploring your passions. Look at who you are passionate about "being" rather than just what you are passionate about "doing."
Marcia Wieder (American speaker, trainer, author)
Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.
Bud Wilkinson
When I stop working, the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working.
Tennessee Williams (1914-1983, American dramatist)
The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.
Kathleen Winsor
Better to burn out than rust out.
Neil Young (1945-, Canadian-born American musician, singer, guitarist, songwriter)
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