Motivational Quotes

Work

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Work

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Oakley, Ann

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

Dodge, B.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

11.

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.

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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Herold, Don

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

Robert Benchley

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

Devine, Dan

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

44.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin