Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

12.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Devine, Dan

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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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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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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.

18.

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

Henry David Thoreau

19.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

20.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

21.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

23.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

24.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

26.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

28.

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

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Proverb, American

36.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

37.

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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

James M. Barrie

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

Kipling, Rudyard

44.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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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.

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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