Motivational Quotes

Work

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Work

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

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

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Oprah Winfrey

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

Confucius

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

Riley, Pat

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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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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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

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Drucker, Peter F.