Motivational Quotes

Work

The work praises the man.

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Garfield, James A.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

10.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

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

Shakarian, David

12.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Peter Drucker

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

19.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Blow, Susan

21.

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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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.

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

24.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 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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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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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.

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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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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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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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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

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

Carty, Margaret

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

46.

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

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Austen, Jane

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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.