Motivational Quotes

Work

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Work

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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

11.

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

12.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Riley, Pat

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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.

John Ruskin

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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

23.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

24.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

25.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

26.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

27.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

28.

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

Dodge, B.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

33.

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.

34.

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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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 welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

40.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

41.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Riley, Pat