Motivational Quotes

Work

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Work

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

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Kipling, Rudyard

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

11.

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

12.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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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

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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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

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

22.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Book, William Frederick

27.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

29.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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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

33.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

34.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

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

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

38.

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

Jones, Beverly

39.

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

Marquis, Don

40.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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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.

42.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

45.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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