Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Austen, Jane

Best Quotes about Work

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Howard Newton

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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.

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

Kemp, Jack

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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.

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

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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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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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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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Work is a four letter word!

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Peter Drucker

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Rutte, Martin

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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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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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.