Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Work

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

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Prince, Ray

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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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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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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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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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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

40.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Twain, Mark

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Austen, Jane