Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Twain, Mark

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Hill, Napoleon

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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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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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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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Kemp, Jack

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Twain, Mark

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

Carty, Margaret

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

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

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia