Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Drucker, Peter F.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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.

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

David Shore

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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

Weil, Simone

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Rutte, Martin

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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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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

22.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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.

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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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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.

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

37.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

38.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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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