Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Austen, Jane

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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

LeMond, Greg

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

35.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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.

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

Rutte, Martin

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Riley, Pat

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

Peter Drucker

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.