Motivational Quotes

Work

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Work

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

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

David Shore

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

15.

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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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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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Confucius

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Riley, Pat

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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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.

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

Twain, Mark

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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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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Rohn, Jim

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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.

Schembechler, Bo

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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