Motivational Quotes

Work

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

- Ray, John

Best Quotes about Work

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

LeMond, Greg

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

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

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Marquis, Don

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

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

10.

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

Diller, Phyllis

11.

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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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

15.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

16.

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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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

22.

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

Sam Ewing

23.

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

Hal Lancaster

24.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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

Riley, Pat

28.

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

Oakley, Ann

30.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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.

32.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

33.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

34.

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

Robert Benchley

35.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

40.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

41.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

42.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

43.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

44.

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

Voltaire

45.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

46.

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

47.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

48.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

49.

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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl