Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Best Quotes about Work

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Ogden Nash

10.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

11.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

12.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

13.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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

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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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

19.

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

20.

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

Maurois, Andre

21.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

28.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

29.

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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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

31.

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

LeMond, Greg

32.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

33.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

34.

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

Sam Ewing

35.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Shakarian, David

39.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Angelou, Maya

41.

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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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

43.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

44.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

45.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

46.

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

47.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

48.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

49.

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

Twain, Mark

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.