Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Butterworth, Eric

Best Quotes about Work

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

Riley, Pat

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Marquis, Don

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.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Riley, Pat

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

Austen, Jane

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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.

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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

Maurois, Andre

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Herbert, George

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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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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Paterno, Joe

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan