Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Romer, Frank

Best Quotes about Work

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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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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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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Prince, Ray

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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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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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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Oakley, Ann

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle