Motivational Quotes

Work

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Work

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.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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.

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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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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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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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

Kemp, Jack

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Dodge, B.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

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Work is a four letter word!

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat