Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Brown, Dean Charles R.

Best Quotes about Work

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Proverb, American

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

21.

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

Escher, M. C.

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

23.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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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

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

Austen, Jane

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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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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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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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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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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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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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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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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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne