Motivational Quotes

Work

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

- Howard Newton

Best Quotes about Work

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

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

Ogden Nash

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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

Book, William Frederick

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

11.

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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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

James M. Barrie

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

18.

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.

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

Voltaire

20.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

Maurois, Andre

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

31.

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

Jong, Erica

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

Foster, Jodie

40.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Reagan, Ronald

42.

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

David McCullough

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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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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

48.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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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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