Motivational Quotes

Work

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Work

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Herbert, George

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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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

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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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 best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Gorky, Maxim

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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 your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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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

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster