Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Work

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Benchley, Robert

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Comaneci, Nadia

10.

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

11.

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

12.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

13.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

14.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

15.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

16.

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

17.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

18.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

19.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

20.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

21.

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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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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

24.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

25.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

26.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

27.

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

28.

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

Jones, Beverly

29.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

30.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

32.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

33.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

34.

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

Marquis, Don

35.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

36.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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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

38.

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

Peter Drucker

39.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

40.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

41.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

42.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

43.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

45.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

46.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

48.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

49.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

50.

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