Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Work

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.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Barack Obama

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

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

Michelangelo

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

Keller, Helen

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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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.

11.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

13.

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

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

16.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

17.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

20.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

21.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

22.

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

Pavlova, Anna

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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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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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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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

27.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

28.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

29.

...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

30.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

31.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

33.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

34.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

35.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

43.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

46.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

48.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

49.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine