Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Hal Lancaster

Best Quotes about Work

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Carty, Margaret

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Barack Obama

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

11.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

Austen, Jane

13.

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

Gorky, Maxim

14.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

15.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

17.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

18.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

19.

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

20.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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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

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

Holtz, Lou

27.

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

Gillis, Dobie

28.

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

Richard Bach

29.

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

Book, William Frederick

30.

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

Picasso, Pablo

31.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

32.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

33.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

34.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

35.

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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Paterno, Joe

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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

40.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

42.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

43.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

45.

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.

46.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

47.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

48.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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