Motivational Quotes

Work

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Work

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Weil, Simone

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Marquis, Don

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Devine, Dan

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

Herbert, George

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

Allen, James

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

LeMond, Greg

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Foster, Jodie

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Paterno, Joe

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Rohn, Jim

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna