Motivational Quotes

Work

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

- Henry J. Kaiser

Best Quotes about Work

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

Mansfield, Katherine

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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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

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Ogden Nash

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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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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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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.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

Robert Benchley

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Voltaire

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

Elbert Hubbard

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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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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.

Thatcher, Margaret

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall