Motivational Quotes

Work

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Work

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

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Holtz, Lou

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Voltaire

11.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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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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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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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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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Prince, Ray

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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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

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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.