Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Work

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

Herbert, George

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

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Jones, Beverly

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

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

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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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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.

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Dodge, B.

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

Ogden Nash

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Howard Newton

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Barack Obama

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Ford, Henry

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.