Motivational Quotes

Work

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Work

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

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Billings, Josh

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

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

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Richard Bach

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

21.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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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 welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

LeMond, Greg

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince