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

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.

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.

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

Keller, Helen

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Book, William Frederick

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Proverb

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

David McCullough

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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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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Billings, Josh

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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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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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Work is a four letter word!

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Keller, Helen

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

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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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