Motivational Quotes

Work

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

- Don Marquis

Best Quotes about Work

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

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

Maurois, Andre

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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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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.

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.