Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Fromme, Dr. Allan

Best Quotes about Work

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

Gillis, Dobie

10.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

11.

Work is a four letter word!

12.

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

13.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

14.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

15.

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

Picasso, Pablo

16.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

17.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

18.

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

19.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

20.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

21.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

22.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

25.

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

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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

28.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

29.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

30.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

31.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

32.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

33.

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

Gorky, Maxim

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Henry David Thoreau

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Rohn, Jim

43.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Jones, Beverly