Motivational Quotes

Work

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Work

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

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Carty, Margaret

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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

10.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

12.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

13.

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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

15.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

25.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

29.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

30.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

31.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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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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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

37.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

39.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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 banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

46.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance