Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Work

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

Bible

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

Prince, Ray

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

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

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Butler, Samuel

10.

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

Jones, Beverly

11.

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

Reagan, Ronald

12.

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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

18.

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

19.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

20.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

21.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

23.

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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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

25.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

26.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

27.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

28.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

29.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

34.

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

35.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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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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

40.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

41.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

Voltaire

43.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

44.

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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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

46.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

47.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.